03 Monday Apr 2017
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I woke up this morning to the sound of a table saw. My neighbors installing French doors in the back of their house, which my bedroom overlooks. The bedroom where I’d hoped to sip coffee and read the news in much more peaceful conditions. So, what brought me to this video was disgust. Plain hate for our noisy mechanical world. What I found instead: the universe in a cylinder. Holy cow, minute 3:
How different the world looks up close, in slow motion…
Write on,
Michelle
29 Saturday Jun 2013
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I love English majors. I love how smart they are. I love their intellectual curiosity. And I love their bold choice for a major. Most of all, I love to hire them.
A recent article by the great David Brooks in the New York Times about the changing nature of the Humanities in higher education just reinforced why, when given my druthers, English majors are my employee of choice.
And the reason is not that I am a writer; I more consider myself an entrepreneur than anything else. I run a small business and the people I hire do a variety of tasks — SEO, project management, social media, and so forth.
For my money (literally and figuratively), for my needs, and I suggest the needs of most small businesses, English majors are easily the top choice when it comes to getting the type of teammate who can make us all better, as they say in basketball.
Read the rest of the article by Steve Strauss at the Huffington Post
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