Category: 28-Day Praxis Writing Challenge
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My Month Of Storytelling: A Story About What I Learned
Beginning my Praxis capstone, I set out on a month of strengthening my skills in storytelling. I see storytelling as a basis of everything we do, it’s creative, it’s fun, and it strengthens my marketing, communication, and critical thinking skills. In this post I’m going to spend some time going…
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The Influence of Body Language and Emotional Energy on Mutual Respect
Right now I work in a health food store. This primarily consists of me being in the kitchen, but one day a week I’m scheduled up front at the register. It’s a small, locally owned grocery store with a register that needs a lot done by hand as opposed to…
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I Killed All of My Plants
At one point in my life I had a huge passion for the study of plants. Sparked by my years of working in a commercial greenhouse, I came to fascination with how plants worked. In this time I amassed a large personal collection of houseplants. Some would call it hoarding,…
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Conditioning for the Appalachian Trail: A Thought While Hiking
A big part of conditioning for my 5-month trek in May has been loading my backpack up with 20-30lb of weight and exploring random trails. When trying a new trail, something that I have noticed about myself is that when a weird turn in the road comes, I don’t see…
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Two Small & Random Ideas
As of recently my brain has been continuously spurting out ideas that I’m forced to write down as quickly as possible before forgetting. As they continue to build up–I wanted to write a quick piece on two completely random, unrelated ideas that will probably be making it out of the…
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5 Takeaways from “Keep Going” by Austin Kleon
I greatly prefer paper books over digital, but today I found myself unexpectedly buying and reading: “Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad” by Austin Kleon online. To cement my reading I’ve put together 5 (kind of random) takeaways for you, big and small. For…
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The Internal Call for Adventure
I got sick last week. Like really sick. Can’t even think about opening up my computer sick. As I’ve been forcibly bedridden, I’ve had a lot of time to consider my next steps forward after Praxis. From the beginning I knew it was going to be adventuring. In my mind–primarily…
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I Completed a 28-Day Writing Challenge: Reflection & Lessons Learned
This is the last post in my set of 28, marking the end of my month-long writing challenge. I learned a lot in this past month and I’m excited to break it down for you. In my first post I wrote about how I’m going to set myself up for…
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Henry Ford: The Creation of Greenfield Village
Did you know that Henry Ford created multiple history museums? I live 45 minutes away from them. Today I want to talk about Greenfield Village, how it got started, and why he chose to build it. Greenfield Village began in 1919 as a renovation project on Henry Ford’s childhood home.…
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A Quote From C.S. Lewis on Loving Others
With the holidays approaching, I am taking a moment to reflect on how, at times, I’m not a very good receiver. Something that I have grown in immensely, but still have to pay attention to in my life. This led me to remember a piece from C.S. Lewis, not directly…
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