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Getting Good Use out of Bad Writing

Getting Good Use out of Bad Writing

I promise this is a post about writing, but first I have to start here: In the martial arts in general, and more particularly in the martial art that I practice, TaeKwonDo (TKD), there are a lot of principles students are required to learn about and encouraged to follow.  Some of these are like the student oath (e.g., ‘I shall never misuse TaeKwonDo’) or the tenets (e.g., Integrity).  Others are frameworks for learning and conceptualizing the core values and lessons…

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When an Award Doesn’t Feel Like an Award

When an Award Doesn’t Feel Like an Award

So, last year I was on a small team at work that won one of my company’s annual recognition awards.  Which should be at least a small ‘Yay!’  But, the circumstances of the win were such that it actually just made me kind of annoyed, and that flipped the switch in my brain that goes into rant mode.  For some reason, the rant that came out was formatted as an explanatory rant to my TaeKwonDo Instructor, even though he had…

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Happy my-Mama’s Birthday!

Happy my-Mama’s Birthday!

“Your girls are so lucky.”  It was after a TaeKwonDo class, and I was dropping off a classmate home, telling her about my little girl who had (still has!) such a talent for drawing. “What do you mean?” I asked. “We weren’t allowed to focus on anything that wasn’t ‘serious’ when I was growing up,” she said.  “Sports were okay, but not art.” And I was kind of gob-smacked.  Up until that point, I had really never conceived of a…

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Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day!

This is a Father’s Day post! because my dad is great!  I’m not very good at writing about things that are really important to me in a good way – my words get extra stilted for some reason.  But that’s not a good reason not to tell you that my dad is great, and important to me, and I’m really proud to be his daughter. A quick sketch of my father can be summed up with three activities: I think…

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