Over the years, my daughters have had a private correspondence with a very special . . . um, being. These are personal and sensitive messages that, until recently, have been secreted in a shoebox under the bed. We think, perhaps, that enough time has passed. Please be gentle with them. Tooth Fairy Letter #3, Found …
Category Archive: mysteries
Dec
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Nov
17
Tooth Fairy Letter #2
Over the years, my daughters have had a private correspondence with a very special . . . um, being. These are personal and sensitive messages that, until recently, have been secreted in a shoebox under the bed. We think, perhaps, that enough time has passed. Please be gentle with them. Tooth Fairy Letter #2, Found …
Nov
15
Tooth Fairy Letter #1
Over the years, my daughters have had a private correspondence with a very special . . . um, being. These are personal and sensitive messages that, until recently, have been secreted in a shoebox under the bed. We think, perhaps, that enough time has passed. Please be gentle with them. Tooth Fairy Letter #1, Found …
Jun
19
Sheila Harsdorf vs The Boogeyman
“If I could give three words of advice, they would be ‘tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add: ‘All the time.’ –Randy Pausch, in, The Last Lecture Here’s the thing we have to remember: Politicians use language. They search for phrases that will resonate hypnotically within us. Good political phrases are …
May
30
Do you know what you don’t know?
I love to end the year with my students by studying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. It’s a unit about personal growth, and change, and challenges, and transformation, and death and rebirth . . . and maturing. In the early stages of the Journey we typically see “the hero” as naive. We define that as often …
May
23
Dear Ford Credit: Don’t make my wife angry . . .
. . .You won’t like her when she’s angry. May 23, 2011 Customer Service Center Ford Credit P.O. Box 542000 Omaha, NE 68154-8000 Dear Customer Service Center: I am so disappointed in your service! My husband and I bought a Ford Escape in 2001. It was financed through your credit department. We paid off the …
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