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Don’t ban it, teach it to our children
With the new library set to open soon, we got into a conversation here recently about places we’ve been where they’ve tried to burn or ban books.
With the new library set to open soon, we got into a conversation here recently about places we’ve been where they’ve tried to burn or ban books.
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Trail Mix: Toyota will gets its smile backWell, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webb’s Creek thinking about the time I gained rare access inside two big Toyota plants in California.
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Harness the power of focus
MIT professor Sherry Turkle said during a PBS interview on the Front Line: Digital Nation program, “I teach some of the most brilliant students in the world, but they have done themselves a di...
MIT professor Sherry Turkle said during a PBS interview on the Front Line: Digital Nation program, “I teach some of the most brilliant students in the world, but they have done themselves a di...
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Confessions of a sugar addict
Everyone has a vice, an intense attraction to something that could cause his or her downfall. Mine is sugar.
Everyone has a vice, an intense attraction to something that could cause his or her downfall. Mine is sugar.
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We can overcome procrastination
This is an appropriate column to follow my column from last week, “Simplifying helps some to endure and succeed.” In that column (which drew a lot of comments) I reported how a sportscaster attrib...
This is an appropriate column to follow my column from last week, “Simplifying helps some to endure and succeed.” In that column (which drew a lot of comments) I reported how a sportscaster attrib...
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Trail Mix: Sleep is a mystery to scientistsWell, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webb’s Creek thinking about how I am so thankful I am not a giraffe.
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Re-evaluating what’s really most important
In his thought-provoking book, The Irresistible Revolution, East Tennessee-raised author Shane Claiborne points out the contrast between who many Christians are at church and who they — we — becom...
In his thought-provoking book, The Irresistible Revolution, East Tennessee-raised author Shane Claiborne points out the contrast between who many Christians are at church and who they — we — becom...
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‘Simplifying’ helps some to endure and succeed
Increasingly, college athletic coaches text, tweet, e-mail, and use such things as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and other networking devices to communicate with potential signees for their teams. Th...
Increasingly, college athletic coaches text, tweet, e-mail, and use such things as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and other networking devices to communicate with potential signees for their teams. Th...
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MLK hero; Big Mac a zero
Hero: “Any man noted for feats of courage or nobility; especially one who has risked or sacrificed his life. … Or: “A person prominent in some event, field, period, or cause by reason of his...
Hero: “Any man noted for feats of courage or nobility; especially one who has risked or sacrificed his life. … Or: “A person prominent in some event, field, period, or cause by reason of his...
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Take advantage of ‘who you are’
Recent e-mail messages I received from a teenage boy and a middle-aged woman both referred to the MyMerlin.net Disposition Profile System on our mentoring site for students and adults. Like I thin...
Recent e-mail messages I received from a teenage boy and a middle-aged woman both referred to the MyMerlin.net Disposition Profile System on our mentoring site for students and adults. Like I thin...
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