Self-Audit: Rubin's Four Tendencies
The crucial benefit of students learning their tendency is how the revelation can help them form habits and meet goals.
Read MoreSay It Crisply
This process of refinement - self-editing - is one of the most valuable any writer can undertake.
Read MoreRedeeming Time
What does it mean to lose time? And if we lose time, can we reclaim it?
Read MoreOn Mastery
Mastery is a mining of the self.
Read MoreCalling All Eves
Pay attention. Women are leading. Calling all Eves.
Read MoreThe Bridgerton Allure - Part 2: The Splendour
Splendour is infused with extrinsic value, and made splendid by the attention we pay it.
Read MoreAmanda Gorman: 'The Hill We Climb' (2021)
Gorman tackles the ugliness of racism head on, in a modern lyrical masterpiece that fuses free verse with spoken word, winding the listener through ancient and recent horrors to conclude on a hopeful call to action.
Read MoreThe Bridgerton Allure - Part 1: The Mashup
While Bridgerton is derivative, it is variously so; it’s a mashup of popular society narratives.
Read More'Sic Semper Tyrannis'
The phrase means ‘thus always to tyrants’, suggesting bad outcomes always befall tyrannical rulers.
Read More2020: An End and a Start
Four Quartets is considered Eliot’s masterpiece, and its final lines suggest the culmination of his life’s work in this contribution: Life can be purified in the present.
Read MoreMerry Little Christmas
As the song imparts, the ‘muddle’ doesn’t preclude the ‘merry’; it necessitates it.
Read MoreLet There Be Lights
Every year, in this nebulous state of mind, there is a luminous saving grace: Christmas lights.
Read More'Expect the Unexpected': Oxford Interview Tips
Guest post by Tabi Brewster, reading English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Read MoreOn Heroism
Healthcare professionals face peril with courage daily, but this heroism is so invisible that it has become inconceivable.
Read MoreOn Changing Fortunes and Time Capsules
Writing poetry is a certain effort to encapsulate passing contemplations, which makes a poem something of
a time capsule.
The US Election: Historic Media Moments
These are just a few media moments etched in my mind following a momentous week in
the history of the US and the world.
The 5-Point Narrative: How to Plot a Short Story
Once the basic structure of a story is outlined, the writer is free to imagine and inscribe the rich detail that will enhance the storytelling and boost the performance of their work.
Read MoreWhy We Wear Masks
As a society, we rely on brave people to wear masks, so the rest of us have the choice - to liberate, respect and protect ourselves and others with this gesture.
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