There's a comfort, there's healing, high above the pain and sorrow. Change is coming, can you feel it? Calling us in to a new tomorrow. Won't you stand up, stand up, stand up? Won't you stand up you girls and boys?" --Sugarland, Stand Up As a part of an exercise with some middle school kids I visited …
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Monday Musings – Stop by for some inspiration to begin your week
Happy New Year! If you're looking for some inspiration to begin the New Year, or new week, stop by the Evolved Publishing blog and check out my new weekly column. If you've got time, stay a while and check out the entire site - lots of work done in the past month by my publishing company, …
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Victories of 2011
'Cause I can see the shadows at the foot of my door I can see the faces that don't doubt us anymore I can see it coming, I pray I don't go blind In the middle of our reckoning time." -- Needtobreathe, The Reckoning "Why do you root for San Diego State?" That was the …
Lessons for All Ages — First up: Middle School
I'm very excited about a special opportunity I have next week: to visit several sixth grade classrooms and talk about my book. The teacher who invited me to do so asked me to prepare a presentation for it -- points of emphasis, ideas to discuss. The request got me thinking. If I had to choose …
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The Season of Hope
Those Christmas lights... light up the street Down where the sea and city meet May all your troubles soon be gone Oh, Christmas lights, keep shinin' on" -- Coldplay She'd loved the rust-red sweater the previous year. The v-neck wool sweater I'd surprised Mom with on Christmas morning -- the same one I'd caught her …