life skills

Review: Balanced by Tricia Goyer

I just don’t know where to begin with this review. I have 19 pages of notes…from a 109 page book! Obviously I can’t share them all in this review, but let me tell you one thing: If you have ever felt out of balance, wondered how to get things done and how to determine what […]

Update Your Resume!

Mar 3rd, 2014

by Annie Kate.

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A few months ago someone asked me for my resume for a volunteer position. I had not worried about a resume since leaving the academic scene to become a stay at home mom almost two decades ago! In fact, I had barely written down my various activities. Obviously, this was going to be a colossal […]

Review: Switch On Your Brain by Caroline Leaf

Dec 28th, 2013

by Annie Kate.

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As a physicist, the first chapter I turned to in this book was “Thinking, God, and the Quantum Physics Brain”. It was astoundingly bad, full of inaccuracies, misunderstandings, and downright errors, and a perfect example of why scientists had better be humble when discussing a field that is not their own. Neuropsychology is not my […]

Review: Hot Buttons: Bullying Edition by Nicole O’ Dell

Dec 19th, 2013

by Annie Kate.

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Some issues are so sensitive, controversial, confusing, and potentially life-changing that youth culture expert Nicole O’Dell calls them Hot Button topics. She has written a series of Hot Buttons books that I desperately wish I’d had years ago. A few days ago I reviewed Hot Buttons: Image and today I’m privileged to tell you about […]

Review: Hot Buttons: Image Edition by Nicole O’ Dell

Dec 17th, 2013

by Annie Kate.

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Some issues are so sensitive, controversial, confusing, and potentially life-changing that youth culture expert Nicole O’Dell calls them Hot Button topics. She has written the Hot Buttons books to help parents talk to their teens about hot button issues like image and many more. How I wish I had had these books years ago! Image is an important […]