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What do you love to do? Forget practicality. Forget whether you have the time or the money or the education or skills. Forget everything that is on your plate or what is possible. What is that thing that makes your heart sing when you do it? Or, if you are like many people who are…

More honest and transparent wisdom from reader/commenter/friend Andrea in response to On Being Teachable: This Dog Wants to Learn Some New Tricks… I was contemplating your question and looking at the ways in which I am teachable. I started to think of all the things I know and got onto the gerbil wheel in my…

What is it that makes it so hard to remain teachable? Seems like the older I get the more prone I am to pick up a bias or embrace and absolute. This despite both knowing better and making a personal commitment to cast off preconceived notions and see the world through new, childlike eyes. I…

Mother’s Day is upon us. I can’t tell you how many times I approached this Hallmark holiday with a sense of obligation. Both as a daughter and a mother, I frequently found myself feeling put upon as I attended a brunch I didn’t want to go to or wore a macaroni necklace I didn’t want…

There are some terms that are thrown around by Christians who grew up in church as if the rest of us actually might know what they mean – yet, there are many people in and outside of the church that have a hard time actually explaining them.  Take Beatitude, for instance. What’s a beatitude?  …

I blog here at Beliefnet.com and at ConversantLife.com. On Twitter I’m @joanpball and I am one of several Joan Balls from New York on Facebook. I keep up with past students and professional business contacts on LinkedIn and have my eyes on Ning and Squidoo, although I haven’t made the time to create profiles there yet.…

The news and tracking of the swine flu has my old crisis communications juices flowing. In the 1990s I spent several years as the lead communicator for a nuclear power plant on the east coast. One of my primary responsibilities was the plants crisis communication plan – both writing it and practicing it with the…

I don’t know whether or not Swine Flu, Mexican Flu, American Flu or whatever they decide to finally call it will elevate to pandemic proportions. I do not know if the death of the young boy in Texas reported this morning will be the first of many more. What I do know is that the…

Lots of people are talking about, writing about and tracking the progress of the swine flu. The CDC, WHO and Department of Homeland Security are providing regular updates. Reporters, bloggers and Twitterers are providing lists of symptoms, prevention measures and, in some cases, rumors and conspiracy theories. Google Maps is even tracking confirmed cases, suspected…
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