Social Science Category
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
What is a library? It is ideas. A town without a library is like a baseball team that never practices…Libraries house ideas, as abundant as lemons on a well-watered tree but with all the fruits of the world in one small plot of land.
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
“I really think old Asimov hit the mark,” says my friend and mentor, Dan D. Cook. He sent me the following quotation, and it’s worth repeating.
(Cook is past president of Friends of the Phoenix Public Library, and a powerful advocate for a healthy library system throughout our city, county, state, and nation.)
“I received the [...]
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
“More than seventy extraordinary authors and thinkers contributed to this ebook,” says Seth Godin. “It’s designed to make you sit up and think, to change your new year’s resolutions, to foster some difficult conversations with your team.”
Seth Godin is the bestselling author of ten books. He writes about marketing, the spread of ideas and managing [...]
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Debra O’Connor, Pioneer Press Watchdog, is one of my heroes. Two years ago, thanks to her willingness to advocate for Mark Grewing, dozens of volunteers and Pioneer Press readers came to the aid of Grewing, a White Bear Lake man whose service dog had been taken away.
Today, Mark Grewing and his new companion dog, [...]
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Kathryn Ross-Schmid is one of the 1:150 children in the United States diagnosed with autism. She was diagnosed right before she turned three years old. To the outside world, Kathryn looks like any other four-year-old child, loving and energetic with an infectious smile and gentle spirit. However, spend a few minutes with her and you [...]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Daniel Dillard is ten years old. He has a highly rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome. According to the Epilepsy Foundation, only 1 in 20,000-40,000 children in the U.S. will be diagnosed with Dravet’s Syndrome. There is also no cure for Dravet’s. This means that Daniel will need a lifetime of care and he [...]
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Our beautiful daughter, Reagan, has been dealt quite the hand in her short life. She was only two days old when the doctors located a heart murmur. Due to what appeared to be global developmental delay, we had some very intricate genetic testing done and at age 18 months, Reagan was diagnosed with [...]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Morasha Rael Winokur rocks. She’s authentic. Morasha knows that her brother’s constant babbling isn’t his fault, but sometimes she just wishes she could be a regular eleven-year-old girl. Not exactly possible, when brother Iyal, born with FASD, is unpredictable and emotional no matter where he is. At times, part of her wishes he would just [...]
Posted in Disabilities, Kids' Korner, Social Science, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »