Tag: personal best
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Protected: Of Determination, Eagles and One’s Personal Best …
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Of Alice Miller, Amy Chua, and Parenting as a Way of Growth and Transformation…
A beneficiary of the Civil Rights Era, I entered integration in third grade carrying with me the missive delivered to many middle-class African-American children around the country: “Integration [of schools] offers an opportunity to work even harder. You may sit next to white students, but you will need to prove yourself. You will need to…
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Last Edits, My Personal Best, and Being Present…
The past two weeks have been a blur. I’m in the last stages of editing my novel, The House, that is due out later this year, and times have been quite interesting. It’s funny what happens when you reach a point of having to let go of a book and “put it out there” so…