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Liberty and Entrepreneurship: A Few Quotes
In the month of July, I always stop to give thanks for the amount of liberty I enjoy as a citizen of the USA. Liberty plays an important role in successful entrepreneurship, so it’s particularly...
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Avoiding The Road to Serfdom
One reason to create multiple streams of income is to slow personal movement down the “road to serfdom.” When you diversify your streams of income, creating streams that aren’t dependent on...
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The Ant or the Grasshopper? A Reason to Give Thanks
The fourth Thursday of November is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. While I believe in the power of giving thanks daily, if not hourly, this day offers an additional opportunity to reflect on...
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What Matters in Entrepreneurship is Whether You Can Get a “Message to Garcia”
Owning a business, even a microbusiness, is not a task for the faint-hearted or the spoon-fed. In order to succeed, an entrepreneur must be willing to focus, learn something new every day, and take the...
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Ideas Worth Sharing: Education, Entrepreneurship, and Soul Care
Thursday seems a good day for an Ideas Worth Sharing (IWS) gathering post. Because I love patterns and systems, and like Hercule Poirot, order and method, these are roughly categorized by the areas of...
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Ideas Worth Sharing: On Learning, Practicing, Autism, Entrepreneurship, and...
I have a habit of adding great articles to my reading list, so I can read them more than once. Sometimes I don’t get back to them for awhile, and usually when I do, the delight remains. Some of the...
View ArticleRe-imagining Education: Visions for the Future
I enjoy TED talks, especially those on education. Here is a playlist of a dozen interesting talks on the nature of schooling and how it could be done better. You’ll hear Dr. Ken Robinson’s classic talk...
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Take Heart: 26 Steps to a Healthy Home School – A Review
A review by Janice Campbell When I began homeschooling in the late 1980s, there weren’t many curriculum resources available. Many homeschoolers made do with discarded public school textbooks or...
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Know Thyself: Are Personality Tests Useful?
If thou knowest thyself, it will follow thou wilt not puff thyself up like the frog that strove to make himself as large as the ox. Miguel de Cervantes Online personality tests seem to multiply like...
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Ideas Worth Sharing: Tidying, Maps, and a Mighty Mug Review and Giveaway
It has been awhile since the last Ideas Worth Sharing (IWS) gathering post. Here are a few things I’ve enjoyed over the past few weeks. But first, let me give you the link to the Mighty Mug giveaway —...
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Aunt Edie’s Commonplace Book, 1917-1947
I was poking around in my mother’s bookshelf this past summer, and I found a treasure — our Aunt Edie’s handmade commonplace book. It’s not a very big book, and after many years of love, is a bit...
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How to Wisely Praise Children
Praise has power. Well-earned and properly given praise has the power to motivate and build confidence, while improperly directed praise can create unhealthy attitudes, provide an inaccurate...
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Handwriting and Reading: Ideas Worth Sharing — IWS #4
It’s time for another Ideas Worth Sharing post, so even thought my internet connection is barely working, I’m going to attempt it. You’ll notice that almost all my links this time have to do with...
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Virtue, Education, and the Electorate
An orderly line of voters snaked halfway around the parking lot at the polling place this morning. The crowd courteously made way for seniors with canes, wheelchairs, or walkers, with quiet thanks to...
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Holiday Gifts You Can Read
Give the gift of delight There’s a lot to be said for gifts you can read. Books provide hours of delight at just pennies per hour, and of course, I have a few suggestions (it was hard to whittle down...
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Ideas Worth Sharing: Education, Entrepreneurship, and Soul Care — IWS #1
Thursday seems a good day for an Ideas Worth Sharing (IWS) gathering post. Because I love patterns and systems, and like Hercule Poirot, order and method, these are roughly categorized by the areas of...
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Know Thyself: Are Personality Tests Useful?
If thou knowest thyself, it will follow thou wilt not puff thyself up like the frog that strove to make himself as large as the ox. Miguel de Cervantes Online personality tests seem to multiply like...
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Ideas Worth Sharing: On Learning, Practicing, Autism, Entrepreneurship, and...
I have a habit of adding great articles to my reading list, so I can read them more than once. Sometimes I don’t get back to them for awhile, and usually when I do, the delight remains. Some of the...
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Ideas Worth Sharing: Tidying, Maps, and a Mighty Mug Review and Giveaway —...
It has been awhile since the last Ideas Worth Sharing (IWS) gathering post. Here are a few things I’ve enjoyed over the past few weeks. But first, let me give you the link to the Mighty Mug giveaway —...
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Aunt Edie’s Commonplace Book, 1917-1947
I was poking around in my mother’s bookshelf this past summer, and I found a treasure — our Aunt Edie’s handmade commonplace book. It’s not a very big book, and after many years of love, is a bit...
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