*Quote in title from Howard Gardner, 1995 INTRODUCTION I have been preparing to research the topic of self-disclosure using the methodology of phenomenology for much of my life. I cannot remember a time when I was not absorbed in people’s stories. Even as a young child, I was interested in my parents’ tales of their lives and the drama of … Read More
Glitch Happens
By Dee Giffin Flaherty and Philip D. Flaherty What matters is what you do about them We’ve all had those moments. You know the ones. You are moving along merrily and suddenly something happens, something so embarrassing that you want the earth to open and swallow you whole. But it doesn’t. You have to stand, planted firmly on this planet, … Read More
My favorite mark is just two little dots: the colon
I love punctuation and grammar. I used to drop that sentence randomly at cocktail parties. I somehow thought that it would prompt a big response. I thought I was offering an appetizer as delicious as the stuffed mushrooms and the curried shrimp. I thought friends might want to chat about the politics of the Oxford comma or about crazy examples … Read More