Doctor Mavis Staples →
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Awwww, this is so sweet.
May 2012
50 posts
11 Sounds You Need To Hear Before You Die →
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Thanks to @ShesAllWrite for re-tweeting. I’m really torn between #6 and #10 as my favorite. Animals are funny!
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Grad Students Respond to Riley Post on African-American Studies - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education →
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I agree with this response whole-heartedly. Shame on Chronicle of Higher Ed and that blogger!
The Scale of the Universe 2 →
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OMG, OMG, OMG…this is…:-O If you have kids or students, I think their little minds will explode. I could be here for a millennium. WHOA.
10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You - Yahoo! Finance →
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Great advice. #4 makes me laugh, but it’s really good advice. #10 takes a lot of the pressure off.
The Petite Sophisticate: Something Important →
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About a year ago, I had the chance to attend a symposium hosted by Fountain House, a wonderful mental health charity. The honoree was Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, who spoke powerfully and unsentimentally about her experiences with bipolar disorder and the stigma she faced in going public with these…
I second that you should read An Unquiet Mind. My father suffers from this, untreated, and it’s sad that he can’t/won’t seek treatment. If there are loved ones who have mental health issues, insist that they get help as much as you can.
Kashi cereal's 'natural' claims stir anger on social-media sites – USATODAY.com →
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Thanks to @ChelaBK for RTing this.
Oh dear. Has the word “natural” gone the way of the dodo? Do you kids even know what a dodo is? Anyway, I have some sick schadenfreude about this. Mainly because Kashi doesn’t taste so good.
April 2012
98 posts
Baby Gets Hilariously Pissed About Having to Eat Green Beans →
jezebel.com
Very cute. That’s one kid who does not like to eat her green beans, OK?
Bulls and Basketball an Obsession for Thibodeau - NYTimes.com →
nytimes.com
I think this was a great profile piece.
“Bo Jackson finishes 300-mile tornado relief ride”
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News from The Associated Press
Wonderful.
“I always feel bad, man. I promise you there is no white writer out there, who when you read a book by a white person, and you hear other white people being like, ‘Yo this white book makes me look bad.’ I’ve never met a white writer who ever gets asked questions like, ‘Well, don’t you feel bad about the way you represent white people?’ Guys, I’m not representing Dominicans, I’m representing one crazy set of like, what, 11 people? There’s like, what, 12 people in this book? There’s 10 million Dominicans, yo. I just happen to come from a family of crazy people and I think you should be allowed to write about crazy people.”
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Junot Diaz, at New York City College of Technology in Downtown Brooklyn.
more.
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Beautiful Time-Lapse of Outer Space Created Using NASA Probe Photos →
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Thanks to @WeeLaura for sharing this. Absolutely beautiful. I love our solar system.
The World's Longest Invoice →
worldslongestinvoice.com
Thanks to @ShesAllWrite for tweeting this. This is really giving me pause in terms of entering the freelance world. There’s a tumblr that’s somewhat related to this whose name escapes me right now, but it’s basically the convos of website developers with their clients. Hilarious, but with that twinge of pain in it.
EssayTyper →
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Thanks to @LenKendall for tweeting this. This might come in handy sometime…try it out!
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