Category Archives: Words

promises kept and broken

Posted on August 2, 2015 by

As a consumer, have you ever felt cheated by products that didn’t live up to their advertised features and benefits? Even the youngest consumers can experience the kind of disappointment which turns to resentment—for the company/product that perpetrated the duping … Continue reading →

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on “Words of Beautiful Truth”

Posted on July 26, 2015 by

Akin to reflecting on sticks and stones in the last post, and the fifth grade neighborhood classmate whose taunts first made me feel the punch of words that hurt, I also started thinking about another classmate, and another school, where … Continue reading →

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out with the pots etc.; in with the water

Posted on May 31, 2015 by

Remember being told in school never to define a target word using the target word itself? …Last week, when I asked different grades of elementary students to define a leader, and/or to describe the game “follow the leader,” I realized … Continue reading →

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