Fearless Friday: courage & caution

July 29, 2011
Courage by Nancie Zivetz Gertler The brave may not live forever,but the cautious do not live at...
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Pushing past fear

July 25, 2011
Every Saturday morning since mid-May, I've packed up my turquoise leather tote with laptop, notebook, pens, highlighter and notes and taken the hour-long drive up to San...
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Ready, set, go: Fearless Friday

July 15, 2011
There's a starting line and a finish line.Don't let fear keep you from either.Feel the fear and do it...
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Life’s too mysterious to take seriously

June 8, 2011
I laughed like crazy last week. With deep appreciation of the absurdities of life. Because life is the funniest and funnest thing of all. It feels good to laugh hard, so...
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Be willing … or stay stuck

June 3, 2011
It sounds so simple, doesn't it?Yet, I know people who have gone their entire lives withoutwilling to be willing.Sure does limit them.A young person I know is stuck in...
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Take comfort in the peace of wild things

March 18, 2011
It's a crazy world with lots to fear, but it's probably no crazier and more fearsome than it was when we were growing up.Even though we mythologize childhood in the...
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Playing: not just for kids

January 28, 2011
A few years ago I took a dance class called Nia. It was offered at the gym I belonged to and was held in a room that had a wall of windows.Part of our routine was...
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The non-traditional weapons of passion & laughter

November 30, 2010
This is what you shall do. Be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.-Edward AbbeyEnemies. I don't even like...
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String around the finger’s no longer enough

November 15, 2010
Remember the SAT? {I know. A long time ago. But try.}One of the quantitative sections showed a flattened box with dotted lines. The instructions were something like: If...
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Parenting & the threat of drugs

November 8, 2010
You've probably noticed that I'm pretty flippant about marijuana. It's because I believe it's generally harmless, and certainly far less problematic for society than...
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