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Kicking the can down the road works for me
Kicking the can down the road has been given a bad rap. Political usage of the game’s title has come to mean a shirking of responsibility or procrastinating or hoping someone else will take care of a...
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Plan to bring back a positive memory from Thanksgiving
As I sit here, waiting for our daughter and her husband to arrive for Thanksgiving, I think of all the people traveling today. The bad weather has added an extra dose of anxiety to the trip. Yet, we...
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Happy New Year! Celebrating 2nd Chances, Structure, and Accountability
New Year’s Day is one of the few holidays that much of the world celebrates. Today, on New Year’s Day, we celebrate the possibility of starting afresh and of having second chances, but more even than...
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Balancing the Dissertation with Work and Family When You’re Snowbound
Balancing work and parenting is a neat trick in the best of conditions, but the cold weather and snow in North America may have upended the balance. For many parents, it’s been all parenting and very...
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Boot Camp for Writers—A Safe Place to Sharpen Your Focus and Produce More Text
One of the joys of life is to visit one’s adult children, whether they live close by or at a distance. After graduating from college, our daughter remained in the New York area, married, and bought a...
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Break Out of Your Slump and Re-start Your Writing
You want a prediction about the weather? I’ll give you a prediction. It’s going to be cold, it’s going to be gray, and it’s going to last you the rest of your life.–Bill Murray, playing a weatherman in...
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Bocci and Dancing Egrets: an Invitation to Play
Originally posted on View From the PATH Train:I am loving that the long-awaited spring has finally returned. NYC and Newark, like much of the country, had a particularly harsh winter. We had our...
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How will I know if my idea is any good?
In the Mad Men episode “The Strategy” (5/18/2014), advertising copy chief Peggy Olson is angry and demoralized because the more experienced, assured Don Draper has suggested possible changes to her...
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Put Your Writing on Hold and Get Out on the Road
Happy Fourth of July! It’s time again for the Annual Summer Road Trip. Get out on the road and put your writing on hold. At one time or another, we all say that we wish we had more time, but when you...
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Write Your Dissertation in Two Pomodoros a Day at Lunchtime
Life is lived moment-to-moment—a glance out a window at the path of a rabbit in the yard, the taste of spicy food, a smile and a kind word from a grocery store clerk, the fleeting thought as you settle...
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