Your childcare provider calls in sick on a day full of meetings. Payment from a contract gig is a month behind. Your day-to-day will always have challenges, big and small. And no matter the size and urgency, they all ask you to use critical thinking to analyze the situation and ...
For some, this is straightforward to write; for others, it is more of a challenge. If you are one of the latter, consider what kinds of training and activities you have participated in pertaining to DEI. Why do diversity and inclusion matter to you? Reflect on what you have done or ...
I’m talking to writer, teacher, and scholar Dr. Clint Smith about his new book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. We talk about the history of slavery in this country and how we approach, excavate, recognize, and react to that history —...
to a colleague after a Zoom meeting, following up on a question they asked or something interesting they shared. You could write, “Hey, I’m just reaching out because I’m so glad you asked that question. I was thinking about it, but you were bold enough to ask so I wanted to say...
Unwilling to let others see him in that state, he had no choice but to sit at his desk and get to work. As a result, he managed to write The Hunchback of Notre Dame in just a few months. Whether true or not, this story illustrates an excellent method of strengthening your self-disc...
A) Their brains work in harmony. C) Their interests are quite similar.B) They are generally the same age. D) They have the same ethnic background. A) It can be touching. C) It can work both ways.B) It is hard to predict. D) It resembles family ties.Questions 3 and 4 are base...
Another good method to keep you focused is to write down a task list of all the things that you have to accomplish. These could be a list for the day, and then broken down into hours by taking a look at how much time it takes to complete a task. With the writing out of your tas...
I’m giving up in really asking him to help with the kids too much because it’s boring with him. It’s more worth my while to cross my fingers and hope he gets a promotion or a higher paying job so we can afford an au pair and then we won’t fight about childcare anymore, I...
I’ve wanted to write about our Congressional visits from before I even left on my trip, but was struggling to find a hook that would pull together government, politics and bioinspiration. I could go with a story about dominance hierarchies (=pecking order) in both human and animal societies...
WIC (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women Infants, and Children) and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) are two of the primary nutrition support programs available to U.S. families with economic need [43,44]. Both WIC and SNAP policies are similar in that they are ...