December 2011
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Weekend Update Joke-Off with Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, and Tina Fey.
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“THERE ARE CERTAIN things about women that men will never understand, in part...”
– The Glory of Oprah - Magazine - The Atlantic
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Stop asking questions if you know the answer →
world-shaker:
I was working on a lesson with sixth graders and middle school teachers in doing math without any tools, just in your head. Not memorization, but logic. So I said, “I’ve never really gotten the “9 x” table, so, if I asked you what 9x12 was, how would you figure it out?” See, this is a question I cannot possibly answer for them. There is no “correct” answer possible. “I’d say,”...
“She told her interviewer the note that emanates from them is a deep and constant...”
– Now That Books Mean Nothing - The Morning News
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Elyse Fenton, "After the Blast"
poetryeater:
It happened again just now, one word snagging like fabric on a barbed fence.
Concertina wire. You said: I didn’t see the body hung on concertina wire. This was after the blast.
After you had stood in the divot, both feet in the dust’s new mouth and found no one alive.
Just out of the shower, I imagine a flake of soap crusting your dark jaw, the phone cradled like a hand on your...
“Whatever you want, chase after it with everything that you have, not because of...”
– Natalie Warne
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November 2011
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“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more...”
– Mitch Albom, For One More Day 