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Dec 25, 20122 min read
The Next Try Was Success But Another Set Back
One step forward, one step back, or at lease one foot nailed to the floor. I passed my prelims with not problems as the conditions were...
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Dec 17, 20122 min read
We Can Not Predict the Future Only Build It
I studied my lists intensely and was ready for the four days of testing. The night before I was to leave and travel 300 miles to take...
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Dec 12, 20122 min read
Everything Had To Fit Together Like a Jigsaw Puzzle
My task was to make a list of words to jog my memory. I knew I was a top down learner, that is I had to see the whole picture first as I...
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Dec 4, 20121 min read
A Blessing In Disguise
I did not feel good about my prelims. I waited for the mail, the uneventful moment of opening the envelope and reading that I had failed....
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Nov 28, 20122 min read
Finally, the Truth Comes Forward, Answers
Then the answers began to come. The math teacher said she thought I was unsociable because I did not go to the Tavern with the others....
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Nov 20, 20121 min read
The Suspect Does Not Know When To Stop
An overly ambitious person will eventually hang themselves. The one I suspected of setting me up to get my teaching job could not settle...
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Nov 14, 20121 min read
Finally a Crack in the Cold Silence
The Counseling and Speech department sent a letter to my department with the testing results. I wondered what effect it would have. They...
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Oct 24, 20122 min read
My Sign Was I Was In A Corner
The sign was unusual, I had to take a test, in Statistics. My teacher, one of the players, taught a series of lessons, I was not...
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Oct 24, 20123 min read
I Was Normal and Intelligent and Handicapped, What Next
Well, I took the Personality test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the best psychological test ever designed. My results...
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Oct 17, 20122 min read
The Character
I had learned early in life that to ask questions can turn against you unless you ask in all humility and are sensitive to the other...
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Oct 17, 20122 min read
Ask Questions, Too Many, and Ask Some More
I never did go to the YWCA where the women had originated. They came to my study class and I asked them what they knew. They had been...
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Oct 11, 20122 min read
I Was Given a Teaching Job, Unbelivable.
I always wondered why some people get all the good luck and others none. Well, I was given the good luck of a part time teaching...
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Oct 3, 20122 min read
I Was Accepted in the Ph.D Program, Now What?
The letter came from the other University. I half heartedly opened it. Not in a million years would I be accepted. Not I, not I who could...
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Sep 19, 20122 min read
Past Efforts Become Our Tools to Succeed
I never thought about my past efforts, which did not seem to lead to success, that they would lead to success in the future. But they do...
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Sep 19, 20121 min read
As We Move Up More Others Take Notice of Our Talents
If I had stayed at home no one would of ever noticed my unique talents, just my failures. People often judge us by our failure rather...
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Sep 12, 20121 min read
Past Efforts Begin to Pay Off
MY HANDICAP SAVES ME Because of my handicap, to compete, I had to learn things better then most. It may take a bit longer, and I may have...
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Aug 8, 20122 min read
It Forced Me On
I had been living in a small three room shack with my three sons. There was only one bed room too small for three beds so I constructed...
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Aug 8, 20122 min read
What a Reason to Get a Job
After six months probation on the job I was able to apply to get a better job working for the state welfare office as a receptionist. The...
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Aug 8, 20121 min read
A Break, A Fluke, It Wouldn't Last But It Was Worth A Try
I couldn't believe it and perhaps shouldn't have. The department was offering a fellowship to go to graduate school. I immediately jumped...
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Aug 8, 20122 min read
Patience, Gentleness, Stop and Think
I was in the office of the counselor that was to help me set up my graduate classes. He had just told me all my arrangements with the...
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