Tag: college
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters
With National Decision Day looming on May 1st, letters have been very much on prospective college students’ minds this month. Is the letter long or short, envelope thin or fat? Did the dream school say “yes”? Did the scholarship come through? So much riding on those letters …. While the decision is important, there are many good colleges…
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Getting Out of the Way
“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.” ~ Robert Brault And so it begins . . . Or depending on your perspective, and so it ends. The first of the college acceptance letters arrived in the mail this week and we were…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV
The penny is an underappreciated piece of currency. Undervalued, taken for granted, often discarded! But, for college-bound high school seniors, every penny begins to count as they look toward college costs. Shifting from the idea of fun pocket change to funding education — one’s point of view, and stage in life, makes all the difference.…
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A Minute of Your Time Could Help A Student Win a $500 Scholarship
Friends, readers, and anyone else who happens to stop by . . . yes, this is a shameless plea to help out my son Charlie with one of his scholarship pursuits! As you know from some of my other posts, I have a senior in high school this year, and he is starting on college…
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Life Lessons: Success Is Letting Go of Perfection
I was disappointed when the sunset did not contain the brilliant colors it had displayed earlier in the week, as I stood on the icy shoreline of Lake Superior with camera in hand. I thought, “Is this all?” Seemingly flat colors, uninteresting cloud formations, no breathtaking moment as the sun dipped below the horizon. But,…
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