Posted on August 25, 2024 by Roffino
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First, read this: The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor… Jesus never commanded me to love my religion. – Barbara Brown Taylor, from Holy Envy…
Posted on February 22, 2023 by Roffino
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In my Comp 2 classes, I have started letting my students select a reader and one of my classes picked a great one. (This originally evolved from an issue/worry with Florida’s Governor Ron Desantis’s new restrictions on classroom topics, but in the end, it…
Posted on August 15, 2022 by Roffino
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After teaching writing classes for more than 11 years with Dallas College, I have resigned from my full-time position to light out for other endeavors. It’s a family move, but I also love adventure and growing. At first, I wasn’t sure about Florida –…
Posted on August 6, 2022 by Roffino
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Want some thinking about how to find calmness in the middle of a chaotic day, week, month, summer, or life? (More about MY chaotic summer soon…) Try reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I always feel a bit like a kid out…
Posted on May 21, 2021 by Roffino
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The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt, is a wonderful, interesting Social Psychology light book (240 pages) rich with thinking that will be remembered for years to come. This book uses narrative writing to start with the concept of a divided mind (by the way,…
Posted on December 30, 2020 by Roffino
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Horrible, Haarible I once knew a pastor, an amazing and life-changing gentleman, who occasionally showed his Boston roots with a hint of an accent. I will always remember the way he described the brutality of the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s…
Posted on July 10, 2020 by Roffino
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Want to be better? Want to be taken even more seriously? Want to take down your enemies, ahem, I mean refute your opposition politely? Then it may be worth paying more attention to flaws in logic or argument. In writing circles, we call these…
Posted on October 26, 2019 by Roffino
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Have you ever been really sad? Have you ever felt not the basic “we’re out of ice cream” sad (though that is really bad) but feeling something like “I’m alone in an ocean at night and these waves suck and I don’t know how…
Posted on August 16, 2019 by Roffino
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So you’re a new student to college? I have a few thoughts for you to consider that might help you get through faster with less trouble. SUPPORT / POSITIVITY NETWORK? I hope you’re excited and hopeful about this journey. I wish you tons of…
Posted on April 25, 2019 by Roffino
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What would energize you mentally?
