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Silence is Golden, the Game

On November 10, 2011 By

Two armed men approached the ten-year-old boy. One had a gun. The other a machete.

Timmy just stood there, silently.

The larger guy, sweating profusely and wiping blood off his forehead, looked the boy in the eye and warned, “I am going to mess you up.”

Timmy allowed himself the tiniest of [...]

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PreMergency EMS

On November 9, 2011 By

Two miles into her hike, Jessica could finally see the ridge line up ahead. From there, she would have an amazing view of the valley below.

She heard her two dogs barking. A few strides later, she had her first glimpse of the clearing at the top of the ridge, and was surprised [...]

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ALS Entrepreneur

On November 8, 2011 By

“I will never leave a fallen comrade.”

They tell me that’s the most important line in the soldier’s creed. I live by it.

I am one of the lucky ones. I have ALS, and have been “locked-in” for three years. For nine months, I had no way to communicate with the world. Couldn’t talk. [...]

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Yoga center learns from Starbucks, takes it up a notch

On September 23, 2011 By

Last night, Max Strom taught me how to breathe. In retrospect, it seems surprising that across 20 years of school and a few decades of life, no one shared this lesson before.

I met Max courtesy of Kaia Yoga, a Westport, CT gem that defies easy categorization. His two-hour Learn to Breathe [...]

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PreMergency (a “Coming Soon” story)

On December 13, 2010 By

(Here’s another fictionalized story I wrote partly for fun, and partly to illustrate the ways I hope my 1toEverything chart gets your imagination going. By the way, the lodge and the dogs really exist.)

Two miles into her hike, Sara could finally see the ridgeline up ahead. From there, she would have an [...]

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Personalized physical ed class

On October 4, 2010 By

by Fred Strong, Dean of Faculty, Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences

High school PE class. Maybe you liked it, maybe you dreaded it. Did you have “lines” and “squads”?

Even if the teaching methods in your class were more enlightened than back in my day, the drills and games probably showed who [...]

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Keap your brain sharp (I mean keep)

On October 14, 2009 By

“The baby boom, ” says Derrick Chasan of CogniFit, “Is the first generation that both has access to cognitive fitness programs and is aware of the fact that exercising your cognitive abilities helps you keep them sharp.” In other words, use it or lose it.

The problem is that you get very good at what [...]

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