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The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.

The Price of Education and Teaching: Part VII
The three days I'd spent doing observation in what would be my future classroom, were just foreshadowing the rest of my teaching career.
By Martina R. Gallegos8 years ago in Journal
My Adventures as a Pizza Delivery Driver
We have a developmentally challenged employee at work. He visits several stores during the week and he folds boxes for each store. This guy has been an employee at work longer than anybody. He has the mind of a child and plays with his “toys,” like, for example, spins tops, while he is trying to work, folding boxes, that is. His brother drives him around to all of the stores that he works at.
By Rhonda Farley8 years ago in Journal
The Price of Education and Teaching: Part V
I knew I'd get in touch with my former high school teacher, and I was anxiously looking forward to it. It was always great talking to her because she was always positive and encouraging; she had more faith in me than I did, and she always asked to keep in touch. I don't even remember spending time with my siblings, especially since they lived with different relatives, and now different cities as well.
By Martina R. Gallegos8 years ago in Journal
Power Trips Trip You Up
Power Corrupts. Power affects people. Power interferes with the ability to think straight. Power drives those with any significant amount of it to become desperate and irrational to hold onto it; to assert that their view of their own position as a reality. They will start to "flex" and pull rank just to assure them that they can. A common saying holds true here: "Any boss who has to say they are the boss is not the boss."
By Casey Parker8 years ago in Journal
The Price of Education and Teaching: Part III
My mother's death numbed me for weeks or months, and I literally lost all sense of time. I kept going to school only to not be home where mom's life had ended, and I wasn't sure I could live there much longer, but I knew I had to stay in school.
By Martina R. Gallegos9 years ago in Journal
The Price of Education and Teaching: Part I
When I was growing up, I never even imagined finishing elementary school; this was especially true due to our family's severe poverty, so I was lucky I survived adolescence and graduated from elementary school but by barely making the grades; I'd no idea what would happen next, but that's when my mother told me she was going to el norte, and she'd take me with her if I behaved. It was hard to believe she'd chosen me out of nine children. She then told me she didn't want to leave me behind because I'd get in trouble; so I was determined to behave and not talk back to her so she wouldn't change her mind; that was one of the most difficult things for me to do.
By Martina R. Gallegos9 years ago in Journal
First Time Living In An Apartment
On May 8, after everyone had left campus for the summer, APU student HT started her new adult living experience by moving out of her freshman dorm Adams Hall, and moving into her first-time apartment ever, University Village, in order to take summer classes and gain the opportunity of living independently by herself.
By Heidi Tien9 years ago in Journal
What Does a Respiratory Therapist Do?
I wanted to be a Certified Nurse Midwife. That's an R.N., (at least), who then goes on to midwifery school, and catches babies. I had attended a handful of home births as a doula. It was my passion!
By Annmaree Rockhold9 years ago in Journal
How [Work] Guilt Kills You
There's a whole suite of psychologists who primarily work in the area of clinical patient care relating to shame and guilt. Academics write monstrous theses on the topic of guilt. Entire shelves in bookstore's self-help sections read titles like Overcoming Inner Shame or Guilt be Gone! (This actually exists and wasn't written by the Sham-Wow guy, Google it.) But what's behind this monumental surfacing of guilt in ourselves and our daily lives? I'll tell you why, because in this modern society we're conditioned to be so damn concerned with cramming as much productivity into every minute of every day and nothing else, to hell with the rest. Then, when we aren't mentally, emotionally, or physically able to live up to this standard, purely because we're not naturally geared for it, then intense feelings of guilt stirs inside us. Which will continue to manifest unhealthily in all sorts of ways, until we knuckle down and clear out all our emotional junk and re-program our minds to function in a way that is more aligned with our natural states of being.
By Sharon G9 years ago in Journal
Victory and Defeat
Anyone would long for a sweet taste of victory. They want to feel the rush of joy when they win a match or be a part of this pinnacle moment when they receive a scholarship or hold a trophy in their hands. Most people do end up achieving them.
By Clara Lin9 years ago in Journal
Default and Working Modes
Breaks are often considered unproductive time by employers and teachers alike. According to a number of published studies, taking some downtime after a study session or a work project has a positive effect on efficiency. The brain is never entirely inactive, and what it does at rest is just as important as the studies or work being done.
By Casey Parker9 years ago in Journal
Social Workin' Wonder Woman
Have you seen her in action yet? The new Wonder Woman film is a thrill for so many reasons, especially to social scientists like myself. We study the things people do, say, and feel so that we can get a handle on how fast society is approaching "hell in a handbasket" status. Watching Wonder Woman was most amazing because of her innate, undeniable, burning sense of empathy for the less fortunate. Social workers rejoice-- Wonder Woman just made your case for why helping professionals need help: salary increases, self-care assistance, and professional autonomy. Now.
By Rochelle Jamille9 years ago in Journal