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Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Sampler
After James and Chall’s SMASH success concert at the Grey Eagle last night, Asheville is asking: who are the Magnetic Fields? Here’s a little sample: my favorite, the wry and resigned I Don’t Want to...
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How Do You Do It?
I probably do get a lot done, and sometimes people ask me how I do it. I think I’ll point everyone who asks to this blog post. Here’s how I do it. How do you do it? advantages I was born with I am a...
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Track list: my mondo ’80s music mix
Been working on this for a week, somewhat obsessively! I DO love to make a nice mixtape. I got the idea for this one when a 22-year-old friend told me he’d never seen Night Court, the ’90s-era sitcom....
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Compost
Image snitched from the Frog & Princess blog Quite possibly the most magical thing I ever saw was compost. A housemate and I composted all year, and I’d never done it before. When he emptied out...
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The Tao of Community Organizing
I heard this chapter of the Tao Te Ching today at church and it really spoke to me as an organizer of nonprofit events and community initiatives. I wanted to share. There are important tips here: work...
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Paid social media professionals, or social media gurus?
As a full-time social media professional (I’m a marketer for a company that promotes music, art and design), I get called a lot of things other than a social media professional. You’ve heard the words:...
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First Year Teacher to His Students
Gorgeous poem from the 5/18/2010 Writers Almanac First Year Teacher to His Students by Gary J. Whitehead <!– (from Measuring Cubits While the Thunder Claps) –> Go now into summer, into the backs...
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What is a friend?
First you are acquaintances, then you are friends. What’s the transition? Today I was thinking about the difference between one stage and another. What happens? Here’s what I think a friend is. You are...
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Look what j-school did to me: journo training changed my brain forever
I just wrote a Facebook post sharing the video above. So did a colleague. Here’s how two people, one with journalism training and one without, see the exact same video with local news value:...
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You are not defeated
You are not defeated when you give up. You are not defeated when you’re beaten. You are not defeated when you are abandoned or rejected. You are defeated when you are embittered. You are defeated when...
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