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600 Thousand Site Visits: #Valentine’s Day Comes Early

On January 2, I received a nice message from WordPress, my blog host. It said the following: “London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 550,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, … Continue reading

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Time To Teach Teenagers: Tough Tunes to Talk

Tough tunes to teach, tough tunes to talk to teens about… That’s what I call Avril Lavigne’s song, “Don’t Tell Me”. A teen (15-year-old-girl) brought the song into my class, after being freely invited by me to “bring a song … Continue reading

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Change The World – Just An Empty Phrase? Let’s Change The World!

How many times have you read or heard the phrase, “Change the World”? A thousand? A hundred-thousand? A million? A billion? Have we used it so much, over and over again, that there is no common understanding anymore of what … Continue reading

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