May 2012
45 posts
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in the cloud: Chronically Absent →
gjmueller:
Study: 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year
New research suggests that as many as 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year, raising the likelihood that they’ll fail academically and eventually drop out of high school.
Chronic Absenteeism Undermines Over…
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Listen
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Today one year ago is the day
that my life changed.
My parents are choosing to recognize a month from now when my dad had his surgery but I am choosing to recognize today, the day that he got cancer. I have recently written about how this affected my life, so today I’m not going to write that.
I want to recognize what has changed and where my dad is. At the beginning of his illness, we faced so many scary moments,...
I wonder..
if breaking my leg is a sign that I am doing something wrong.
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Brief thoughts on adoption
I just watched a documentary called Up and Running, one of those docs that targets a specific family with certain struggles. This family consisted of two white Jewish mothers and three adopted children. The girl, Avery, is a seventeen year old whom begins struggling with her unfamiliar African-American identity after she contacts her birthmother. She formulates a letter to her birthmother after...
I think that one of the best ways for me to cope with everything in my life is to not completely ignore the negative and focus on the positive, but to take note that in every negative situation there are positives. I have to keep reminding myself of that, though, and it’s not easy. It is hard to watch my body change so quickly. My leg keeps getting weaker and now that I am home, I feel like I am a...
lousyshots:
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to...”
– Sylvia Plath (via aqilahhassan)
“You watch Toy Story and you see Woody go next door and see him go to all the...”
– Coach Kevin Dineen about the 2011-2012 Florida Panthers
Sun-Sentinel (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-04-30/sports/fl-florida-panthers-kevin-dineen-0501-20120430_1_kevin-dineen-blues-coach-nhl-coach)
“Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get...”
– Jason Mraz (via creatingaquietmind)
April 2012
25 posts
“Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common...”
– Sargent Shriver (1st Director of Peace Corps, founder of Head Start, etc)
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via kt3mac4)
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Overtime, baby!
I love hockey <3
Turning off Pancreatic Cancer Cells →
kili-elevated:
Pancreatic tumors may become more treatable thanks to a new study, published in the journal Nature, which showed that an important gene was being switched “off” in cancerous cells. Researchers note that they are now working to test and implement a new class of drugs that focuses on turning the gene back “on” to stop the spread of the cancer. Pancreatic cancer is notoriously...