Recently, the good folks over at University of Venus posted Deconstructing Proverbs. It’s a good read if, like me, you rely on proverbs to get your points across. I felt myself wanting to contribute to the list, so here are three (why stop at one?): You made your bed and now you have to sleep [...]
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Hello New Day
Posted in Language, Life, Music, Toddlers, Wisdom, tagged Language, Learning, Life, Music, Toddlers on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
Articulating Your Transferable Skills
Posted in Career Services, Employment, Higher Education, Professional Development, tagged education, Employment, Language, Marylhurst, resume on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I will be facilitating an online workshop called Articulating Your Transferable Skills later this month. Here is the description: In this interactive online workshop, participants will reflect on and learn how to articulate the transferable skills and knowledge they have to offer an employer. This workshop idea came out of a face-to-face workshop that I [...]
One Cool Tool
Posted in Career Services, Employment, Language, Professional Development, Technology, Writing, tagged Employment, Language, resume, Wordle, words on May 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here is some information about a cool new tool that I just learned about called Wordle. Wordle creates “word clouds” — you can copy the body of text (a memo, an essay, a strategic plan, etc.), paste it into Wordle, and you get word clouds. According to Wordle: The clouds give greater prominence to words [...]
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