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Crazy No More
Professor Ayva Even before Ayva was born, she was a master teacher. I learned so much about myself, what I would stand for, how strong I could be, while I was pregnant with her. After she got here,...
View ArticleCan A Sister Have Her Magic? – A Public Service Announcement
As a blogger, whenever I check my email, it’s something like opening Pandora’s Box. Once I click on that “Read Email” link, I have no clue what I’m going to find. Press releases, updates from my...
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Kids, Learning, and Giving Up
Public schools in Philadelphia are in trouble. I hate to be pessimistic, but as a parent, as an educator…I’m scared. Really scared. Budget cuts have school buildings closing early, and not open at all...
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Do They Have Earplugs in Heaven?
Growing up, there were two things I wanted to be able to do more than anything. The first was to be able to jump double dutch, the second to be able to sing like Whitney Houston. Eventually, with...
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Survey Says…Time to Get to Work!
For the last couple of months, I’ve been in a sort of limbo position. I’m ready for a change, I’m aching for a change, I need a change, but I’m not quite sure what my next move should be. Although it...
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We Eat That? Not For Long.
Ayva and I went to the grocery store yesterday for the first time in awhile. My mom had been staying with me for a few weeks, and had been taking care of that task for the family. I was having a small...
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Taking the Time to Be
Time. I don’t know many people who have an excess of it. In fact, just about everyone I know comments, at least once a week, that they need more of it. There just aren’t enough hours in the day! Over...
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What Is MY Success?
Do you ever wonder whether the idea of success that you have for yourself is accurate? Last night, my girlfriend came over to work on her graduate school application. She and I have been friends for...
View ArticleIf Nothing Else, I Am A Writer
When I was in the 4th grade, I won a plaque for being the best overall writer in my school. The piece that I won the award for, a poem that personified a tree and used the shedding of leaves as a...
View ArticleWhy I Haven’t Posted In a Few Days – The Long Version
Years ago when I was putting myself through college by working as a temp at a pharmaceutical company, I learned a lesson that was probably more important than any that I had paid for at my university....
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