Greenhills School's Kasey Gardiner and Dexter's Rylie Damm fight for the ball during the first half of the Gryphons' 6-0 win Wednesday in Ann Arbor. (Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com)Apparently, Kasey Gardiner's athletic talent isn't limited to tennis. The Greenhills School junior, who has yet to lose a set in a ...
The economic recovery appears to be stalling as companies cut back last month on their investments in equipment and machines and Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in decades.
Fly enough, and you learn to go brain dead when you have to. It’s sort of like time travel. One minute you’re bending to unlace your shoes, and the next thing you know you’re paying fourteen dollars for a fruit cup, wondering, How did I get here? —David Sedaris
Seeing fallen acorns this week was startling, I was still in mid-summer mode with the heat and the humidity. The appearance of acorns is a clear indicator that fall is coming. If we were living in this area just a few hundred years ago, the acorns would be a prime ...
When you hang out at a medical clinic, you notice the thoughtful people around you sitting in prayerful silence, and you see scenes of pure marital devotion, a healthy mobile spouse pushing an immobilized one, and the banter of camaraderie of the long married, though one is in dire straits ...
We want to be with others and family. We'd like to be mentally alert as much as possible. We'd like to avoid suffering, and we'd like to spend our last time doing stuff we care about and not just taking in treatments that make us suffer. —Atul Gawande The most ...
[S]ubstantive conversation seemed to hold the key to happiness for two main reasons: both because human beings are driven to find and create meaning in their lives, and because we are social animals who want and need to connect with other people. —Rachael Rettner While “small talk” can be a ...
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. —Thomas Jefferson Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. —Mae West
When I first received word that two of my teachers, widely regarded by fellow students as two of the finest teachers at Huron High School, were to be laid off while numerous other teachers known to be among the worst were to keep their jobs, I was, to say the ...
The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible. —Alain DeBottonPaying attention is an essential 21st Century life skill. At a time when ...
Communication is the most important skill in life. You spend years learning how to read and write, and years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training have you had that enables you to listen so you really, deeply understand another human being? —Stephen CoveyMaybe it’s less important ...
[L]et me assert by firm belief that that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. . . . —Franklin D. Roosevelt I’d rather be singing in the face of my fear. —Libby Roderick The 4th of July reminds us as a nation to celebrate the independence and ...
We are all born with tremendous natural capacities, and that we lose touch with many of them as we spend more time in the world ... with the result that many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they're really capable of achieving. —Sir Ken ...
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