Posts Tagged ‘TED’

My Vegan Life

2010Sep 4

Article first published as My Vegan Life on Blogcritics. I recently started writing for BlogCritics and began my series of posts there with a little information about me and my vegan life. I've had a couple of questions from readers of my blog about veganism, so I thought I would share this with you all as well. I hope …

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A Serious Name Topic: Bullying

2010May 3

[caption id="attachment_2923" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Credit: iStock"][/caption] I've been reading about the topic of bullying lately because it's in the news right now. A lot of bullying relies on name calling for its effective delivery of insult and pain so it seemed like a relevant topic for discussion on this blog. You know the saying, "sticks and stones …

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Is it Time to Fire Your Boss?

2010Mar 12

We’ve discussed before how words are basically names. And sometimes naming something differently can help give it a fresh perspective. For example, let's look at the word quitting. I hate the sound of it. It screams “failure!" It rears its ugly head and says, “You're a loser!” I’ve got a little more spitfire in me than that …

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Living Life in New Directions

2010Jan 2

In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones completed the first-ever nonstop balloon flight around the world. Maybe it takes flying in a balloon around the world to better understand what it takes to live life. I saw a video of Mr. Piccard at the July 2009 TED conference where he describes a metaphor between …

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