When someone copies you

When I first taught school, the director of our flagship Early Childhood Intervention program told us we would be fired if she ever caught us giving our students a “ditto,” which is an old-fashioned thing to call a pre-printed coloring book type of page. We could use blank paper only. If we wanted the children…

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The loser’s table

I love speaking to groups, and my own church hosted a “Creative Arts Collective” and asked if I could come up with a story to read, so I wrote, “The loser’s table.”   Everyone I know who speaks professionally says speaking to people you know is much harder than speaking to strangers. I don’t know…

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