Tag: education
group name: slicesoflife
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October 15, 2006 05:02 AM EDT --
I don't want a cure - just a temporary respite from my addiction. You know that you're addicted when the thing you're hooked on radically interferes with your life and for me it's . . .
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December 28, 2006 01:24 AM EST --
Over the past few months, a number of people have suggested to me that I should return to school in order to complete my BA degree. I am having a massive amount of resistance to this idea; to . . .
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March 27, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
My 14 year old niece Brianna had to write a poem for a school project and decided to write about her relationship with her father. Her mother shared the poem with me and then asked that I pass . . .
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February 04, 2007 09:17 PM EST --
Growing up down on the bayous, I can remember the snickers of folks at the class reunion knocking the education we received. This appalled me but what do you tell a bunch of folks who never . . .
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August 29, 2006 04:08 AM EDT --
Now instead of being just a mother and working full time I am also a college student again. I work the overnight shift in a group home for troubled boys. I feel that I do not do enough for . . .
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October 31, 2006 03:25 PM EST --
A couple of years ago I received a letter from the National Library for the Blind. It is second only to Congress in having the largest Braille Library in the world. Without government . . .
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January 29, 2007 12:47 PM EST --
I am a movie buff. I noticed that many movies have bits of wisdom that should be remembered. Here are some that touched me.
From "Open Range"
"A man's trust is a . . .
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February 10, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
I have been in Gather for about five months. I have 330 points. Obviously my goal is not for points. My goal is to write and get solid feed back. I wrote a poem that I thought was . . .
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October 21, 2006 01:19 AM EDT --
I am forever leaving my cell phone sitting in some obscure location. I have found it in the bathroom, in the car, under my pillow, in the pocket of jeans headed for the laundry and even at the bottom . . .
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September 21, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
I have been in class for 2 weeks now after being out of school for 5 years. Wow it is a lot more work that I remember, but then again all of my classes lasted the whole semester before and were not . . .
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September 29, 2006 02:50 PM EDT --
I have been having fun with my family and still had time for work and everything else I wanted to do in life. When I started school some of that changed. I have had less time for all of the . . .
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October 07, 2006 08:42 PM EDT --
My class in ethics is going well. I am a little apprehensive though. I took it as an 8 week course. At the six week mark my other two classes start that I took for the last 8 weeks. . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:10 AM EST --
School is making my life very busy. Everything is done in 8 week quarters so right now I am trying to take 3 classes at the same time. This means that last week I had a 12 page paper, 4 discussion . . .
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November 30, 2006 07:45 PM EST --
Fight... fight. . . fight! - no matter how much of an underdog you think you are. From an early age I learned that I had to stand up for not only myself but for others. I would not sit idly . . .
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January 30, 2007 01:44 PM EST --
My daughter has worked at a high school for fourteen years, and I am presently studying to become an elementary school teacher. Said daughter sent this to me today. After reading it, I . . .
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March 18, 2007 11:31 AM EDT --
There are some things in life
We all have to do ourselves.
Like dying.
Or saying, "I'm sorry."
Or deciding to learn in school
Instead of goofing around.
Or deciding what . . .
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April 19, 2006 11:59 PM EDT --
Have you ever heard the term, "screech like a banshee?" This phrase is often used when describing the screech owl. Though this article focuses mainly on eastern screech owls, it has a small bit . . .
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October 13, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
I got my Bachelors degree from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln by going and sitting trough classes. This meant long drives every day of almost one hour each way and working overnights on top . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:25 PM EDT --
In the summer of my junior year of college I was presented with an opportunity I could not let slip through my fingers. There was going to be a study tour of Europe that summer and I was bound and . . .
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June 01, 2008 06:46 AM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago, Lena and I were sitting outside on my porch and she mentioned that she had a collection of instruments that she thought might be fun to bring into class. The kids might really . . .
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