Brene Brown’s Talk on Critics in LIfe

Below is a great 99 U talk by Brene Brown entitled, “Why Your Critics Aren’t the Ones that Count.” I am gearing up for my 2015 writing goals. I found this talk, which is 21 minutes long, to be helpful. I hope you will, too. Here is the link. 99 U has a tagline: Insights…

Flash Essay: What I’ve Learned from Research about Huck Finn

I am helping one of my students with a term paper on Huck Finn and as part of the process, we’ve researched what inspired Mark Twain to write the books he did. Here is some of what I’ve learned: Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) started Huck Finn in order to tell the humorous anecdotes he’d…