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  • Making a Thoughtful Career Change Midstream Isn’t Always Bad

    Making a Thoughtful Career Change Midstream Isn’t Always Bad0

    I recently met a woman in the coffee shop I normally frequent. Her story touched my imagination and I thought it might inspire others as well, especially millennials and Gen Xers. Bernadette Hannegan was born on Scotland’s Shetland Islands, growing up with two brothers, a sister, and a crowd of good friends. There she attended

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  • Making a Culture of Creation, Not Consumption

    Making a Culture of Creation, Not Consumption1

    Throughout history, humankind has excelled in being creative. I’d argue that we still do! Unfortunately, in our modern times, this natural creativity is being pushed aside in favor of our need to consume. This need is just as instinctual, of course; how could we survive if we didn’t consume water, food, sleep, or shelter? We

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  • Making a Cheerful Home in Dark Times

    Making a Cheerful Home in Dark Times0

    Putting a few little extra touches into making your home a place of joy and cheer will make it a haven from the depressing darkness.  

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  • Making a Case for Cursive

    Making a Case for Cursive2

    Recently, I asked my fifth graders if they enjoyed writing in cursive. Students at the all-boys Catholic school where I work start training in cursive penmanship in third grade, so my students had been practicing it for the better part of three years. I expected them to say that it is boring, that they do

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  • Makers vs. Takers

    Makers vs. Takers0

    A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm she would call

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  • Make Volunteering Great Again

    Make Volunteering Great Again0

    While at home over Christmas break this past December, I attended a volunteer opportunity as a chaperone for my church youth group. We worked a shift at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), a ministry that ships hand-packed meals to distribution partners worldwide. A mix of upbeat pop tunes and Christian hits blared as we washed

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