admin on November 6th, 2009

I find a mountain of junk under my daughter’s bed in the morning so…I rant. 
I find myself behind the slowest driver in all of Sunday-driver Slugville so…I rant. 
I look in my emailbox and find out that my client has just dumped a ton of work on me and given me no time to do it in [...]

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admin on October 9th, 2009

Recounting his experiences during his reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica for his book The Know-it-all, journalist AJ Jacobs found himself inserting into everyday conversation the numerous obscure factoids he’d discovered.  Not surprisingly, he soon earned the nickname ‘the great conversation stopper.’
I’m not so much of a factoid dropper–not so much as AJ in the Brittanica days, at [...]

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admin on August 27th, 2009

The clean slate, fresh composition book and sharpened pencils associated with a new school year signify a chance to learn, improve and do better, with all the old mistakes blotted out.

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admin on August 17th, 2009

The other day, someone gave me some well-intended, but kind of not nice feedback about a public speaking appearance I made a couple of weeks ago. 
I’d shared in a group that  while I normally really enjoy public speaking (not like those people who rank it as their biggest fear, ahead even of not being able to [...]

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