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My phone said, “Potential Spam,” but curiosity got the better of me. How did it know?
I answered, and sure enough, it was a guy trying to sell me on a “free vacation” which is code for “forced four-hour in-person time-share pitch.”
He was in the middle of dismissing my first objection when my husband called.
Read MoreA movie or novel starts in the moment when something is about to change for our protagonist.
This change is always brought on by some outside force. Dorothy, home and all, is spirited away to Oz, accidentally committing murder in the process. Gandalf shows up and disrupts Bilbo’s peaceful existence. Hagrid comes along and tells Harry he’s been a wizard all along. We’re in for a wild time.
Read More“Do you want to make more money? Sure, we all do!”
These words of actress Sally Struthers ring out across the decades, enticing us to take up a new career in TV/VCR Repair, or maybe Learning the Personal Computer, training from the comfort of home.
I don’t know why this line sticks with me so much. Maybe it’s because I heard it approximately three million times on those ads.
Read MoreThe realization hit me before my eyes even opened on the morning after the conference. It was like a voice from someone else, somewhere else, even though it was my own.
The voice said, “It’s time to close The Little Middle School.”
I was jet-lagged, sleep-deprived, and dehydrated after several days at more than 7,000 feet above sea level in Mexico City. I had blog post to write and a plane to catch. But this was the truth, radiating its inescapable light and heat, and it could not be ignored.
Read MoreAwhile back, the parent of a student at my school learned some concerning information about another student.
She had this information because her daughter had shared it with her. She sat on it for weeks, hoping that another parent would come forward with it so that she wouldn’t have to.
Eventually, this parent, Amy, got in touch to pass this information along to me. But why was Amy contacting me and not the parent of the other student?
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