Ditch that Word
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Christian Music

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Note to Self: There is no such thing as Christian Music. And you shouldn't use the term, because you don't believe in Christian co...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

American Standard

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Note to Self: While it is perfectly acceptable to say, "I Googled that" or "hand me a Kleenex" or "I need a band-...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Other 99%

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Note to Self: Remember that time when you stepped over the street kid who was shot in Brazil?  Remember how people ignored it because it w...

Occupy

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Based upon a post between Quinn and me. Note to Self: It's become trendy to talk about occupying Wall Street and occupying Boston ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Rigor

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Note to Self: When you describe critical thinking, use the word "critical thinking."  When you describe challenging work, use th...
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Purchasing Power

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Note to Self: You don't really understand what "purchasing power" means and whether or not it is on the decline during this ...

Artisan Bread

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Note to Self: Don't buy into the hype.  Don't sell out to their nomenclature.  Store-bought sourdough bread, no matter how tasty, ...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Underpaid Athlete

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Note to Self: Yesterday at the baseball game, you referred to a high-performing player earning the league minimum as an "underpaid at...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

believe in evolution

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Note to Self: The other day you said that you "believe in evolution and in creation." The truth is that you believe in creation...

Brutally Honest

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Note to Self, You don't need to be militant.  You don't need to be brutal.  Ever.  You can't be brutally courageous, brutally ...

Tough As Nails

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Note to Self: Micah is right.  Nails aren't that tough.  They're always being hammered away, put into places to stay forever.  But...

Compulsory Education

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Note to Self: Quit calling it "compulsory education."  If parents want to un-school, home-school, alt. school or private school ...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

battles

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Note to Self: You're wrong when you say, "You have to pick your battles," when referring to your students.  The truth is you...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

icing on the cake

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Note to Self: There have been times you have reduced something to being "icing on the cake," as if the aesthetic and enjoyable a...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Summer Vacation

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Note to Self: You didn't have a vacation.  You weren't baking in coconut oil, sipping a margarita and sleeping in until eleven.  Y...

anger management

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Note to Self: You step up to the sliding glass door and re-live the pain of the pane, shattered by the projectile plate that you threw the...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

interactive toys

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Note to Self: I said the other day that I don't believe in "interactive toys."  I should have said "electronic toys....
Saturday, July 24, 2010

terribly

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Note to Self: You often use the word "terribly" to describe things that are far from terrible.  Like the other day at the grocer...

practicing

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Note to Self: Sometimes you get really insecure about your faith.  I'm not sure why.  You believe in Jesus, but that doesn't mean ...
Friday, July 23, 2010

that really sucks

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Note to Self: When you heard that the Taylors' son had cancer, the best response would have been to cry with them.  If any words were ...

Scientific Method

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This post was inspired by Jerrid Kruse and his amazing blog Note to Self: Science isn't a methodology.  It's a process, perhaps,...
Friday, July 16, 2010

you know what I mean?

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Note to Self: People know what you mean.  You aren't in a foreign country.  You aren't a totally opaque, inarticulate communicator...
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Sunday, July 4, 2010

jump-start

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Note to Self: A few times yesterday you mentioned that Arizona needs to "jump-start" the economy.  Wrong.  The economy crashed. ...
Friday, July 2, 2010

consequences

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Note to Self: Sometimes you use the word "consequence" to justify the remaining elements of behaviorism within you. I hear you s...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Literacy

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Note to Self: Aaron Eyler is right.  Education is addicted to using literacy for everything that is not literacy. Even when it's used...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

child marketing

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Note to Self: You used the term "brilliant child marketing" to describe Disney. Every major diaper company has Disney characters...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Google

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Note to Self: Google doesn't own your mind.  Although they now organize your e-mail, your documents and your calendar, Google is not y...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

funny

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Note to Self: You often use the word "funny" when things are not funny.  Typically, it is after a story that someone tells that ...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

fast food

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Note to Self: You asked someone yesterday if there were any fast food places near the training. Wrong term, John. Fast food is neither fas...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

ethnic food

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Note to Self: You used the term "ethnic food" at the grocery store yesterday.  What you wanted to say was "Mexican spices...
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