Tag: life

• Take the sting out of gossip

  Is it better to let gossip die down or fight back with fierceness? This is a question school administrators, counselors, students, and parents ponder when unkind comments are made. Fortunately, in the schools where I’d most recently worked, responding with fierceness seldom translated into a physical fight. Fierceness doesn’t have to be aggressive or intense…

  fedorewriter

  October 21, 2025

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  being fierce, books, bullying, fierceness, gossip, life, self-esteem, Tacoma Art Museum, writing

• Words: push-ups for our brains, lift-ups for our thoughts

  Before I turned eighteen, before I’d read any books about thoughts shaping our beliefs, and before neuroscientists explored the brain’s complex network with magnetic resonance imagining (MRI)–commercially produced in 1980. Before all of this, I silently recited, “I love math” every day as I walked to my math class at a local community college. Every…

  fedorewriter

  March 14, 2025

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  education, life, mantra, math, positivity, power of words, thoughts, yoga

• Puppy Love Unleashes Lessons

  About a year ago, a dog trainer said to my sister and me, “I’m not training the dog as much as I’m training the owners.” I’ve owned my dog for almost six months and it’s clear that puppy love has lessons to teach us, if we’re willing to learn. Bonus: We can apply these lessons…

  fedorewriter

  February 14, 2024

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  dog, dogs, gratitude, humor, life, love, pets