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Archive for April, 2010

All Children Left Behind

The older man sat at the kitchen table with his nine-year granddaughter pondering her math homework, which had them baffled. Even though it had been many years since his third grade experience there was no doubt this math question was ambiguous. His granddaughter would not be able to solve the problem without understanding it. Darn, [...]

A Newspaper- Revised (4-23-10)

The older man glided down the hall to his front door, opened it, reached down, and picked his paper up off the stoop. It was wrapped in plastic so the elements would not get it soggy; there was nothing worse than a wet newspaper – the pages would stick together, or the print would become [...]

Listening, I Mean Really Listening!

When the older man was at Syracuse University, he studied the art of listening from the old masters: he learned how to keep quiet when another was speaking, clear his mind to block distractions, listen to the inflections and volume being used, when to answer, not say anything, and whispering. The hardest part is not [...]

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