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Writing About Perfectionism

May 6, 2013 Blog

The beginning of an interesting journey A few weeks ago, I did a podcast on this topic with Dr. Miriam Adderholdt, whose book, Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Being Too Good? was one of the first I ever included in my catalogue, back when I distributed books for other publishers. It was a good conversation with a [...]

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Help Wanted: Perfectionism Book

March 21, 2013 Blog

We need your input Yesterday, I celebrated the first day of spring by signing a contract to co-author a third edition of Dr. Miriam Adderholdt’s book, Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Being Too Good?  Today, we are looking for help building the content for this new project. (To clarify: We’re looking at the difference between perfectionism and a [...]

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Hands too Sore to Type

February 4, 2013 Blog

Update, Feb. 3, 2013 Working on my site I’ve spent most of the past three days just adding pages to my site and I still have nearly 300 pages from the old site that haven’t been transferred yet. I somehow keep forgetting that the 700 pages or so that made up the last version of [...]

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So You Want to Write a Book?

December 28, 2012 Blog

Tips for Would-Be Authors (and Speakers) This article is included in The Book of Article Reprints, written a few years ago after numerous requests for help from individuals who aspire to seeing their ideas in print. The following ideas are based on my own experiences and conversations with other authors. There are numerous books and articles [...]

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What’s a Purchase Order?

December 28, 2012 Blog

Confessions of an Accidental C.E.O. The following article begins with what was originally written in 1991 as a chapter for Tricia Gallagher’s book, For All the Write Reasons: Forty Successful Authors, Publishers, Agents and Writers Tell You How to Get Your Book Published. I have followed this article with updates on what’s been happening in [...]

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Picking up the Pieces

December 23, 2012 Blog

Reclaiming our essence “I can never read your writing.” “That was awful. Maybe you should leave the athletics to your sister.” “I can’t tell what this drawing is supposed to be.” “You’ll never be any good at…” Do any of these sound familiar? I know very few adults who grew up without at least some [...]

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The Power of Discouragement

December 20, 2012 Avoiding burnout

The impact of feedback on achievement Years ago working in Slovenia, I met an art teacher, Andrej Grošelj, who over the years, stayed in touch and became a friend until his recent and sudden death. With the help of Google’s Language Tools, I was able to translate email messages he occasionally sent in his native tongue. One [...]

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Staying Positive in the Face of Negativity and Horror

December 15, 2012 Blog

Staying positive in the face of negativity and horror I am, by nature, a positive person. For my own sanity, and for the sake of maximizing my potential contribution to the world, I try to look for the good in all things. That said, I am also extremely sensitive to violence and cruelty, and seem [...]

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Happy Holidays 2012

December 12, 2012 Blog

Greetings from Albuquerque, where it just got cold after an unusually warm fall and early winter. We hope that 2012 has been a good year for you. This year, we’re leaning toward a more eco-friendly approach to holiday connections, more electronic than paper and snail-mail. Competing projects were among the factors that made this a [...]

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Whatever Happened to 21st Century Discipline?

December 1, 2012 Blog

How this title ceased to exist Here’s the story of what turned out to be the happy ending to a long and unsuccessful struggle to retain the rights to a book I wrote in the mid-80’s. This story starts on New Year’s day 2007 and winds up with the publication of The Win-Win Classroom in [...]

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My “Enterprising” Friends

November 24, 2012 Blog

Geeks on Board The first two MacMania cruises coincided and in certain instances, overlapped with, a Star Trek Cruise.

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Where in the World…?

November 24, 2012 Blog

A bucket-list goal inspired by a remarkable teacher

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Getting Ready for the Transition

November 20, 2012 Blog

Launching a new Web site Note: This was one of the final blog posts on the old site. I’ve posted it here because it gives a good sense of the new features on this latest version of the site. If you’ve been following my blogs for the past few months, you know that I’ve been [...]

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Seattle: November 2012

November 6, 2012 Blog

Meetings, meetings, and a shot in the arm Well this was just wonderful! I had an opportunity to work with the Kent School District outside of Seattle. I did two presentations on The Win-Win Classroom: Strategies for Building Responsibility, Cooperation, and Self-Management in a Compassionate School Environment. The district had been working with

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Leaving my laptop at home… on purpose

July 16, 2012 Blog

This will be a first! I leave tomorrow morning for eleven days in France (taking my mom to visit my sister) and I decided that I’m not taking

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Shadow Remembered

January 21, 2010 Blog

Requiem for a Friend Jan. 21, 2010

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Shadow

January 19, 2010 Blog

July 4, 1995 – Jan. 19, 2010 Requiem for a friend: Shadow remembered Chelsea Back to Blog index

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Highlights of 2008, Part 1

January 18, 2008 Blog

Click here for Highlights of 2008, Part 2 Click here for Highlights of 2008, Part 3 Jan. 18, 2008 Becoming a Win-Win Teacher It’s one in the morning. I’ve been formatting survey responses, transferring them from emails to Word documents and trying to print them except Word keeps crashing. (NOT my favorite app. I may [...]

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