All posts by Emily Rosen
MINDFULNESS
Check out “Mindfulness” on Google, and if you print out the results, you could use your entire ink cartridge. Read Emily’s 600 or so word essay — and you can wrap up the whole subject and be on your way to your next life-activity — mindfully. Let me first assure the meditators, and the 30 […]
FROM STRESS – TO LESS
I’m sitting at my computer about to call Comcast — again. I feel pins sticking in my scalp and worms creeping around my stomach. I have spent the better part of a month almost daily – (I’ve added the hours actually — between 30 and 35) on several different issues, most of which have more […]
CHARACTER AND MORALITY
I have stuff on my mind and gotta say it – respectfully. I’ve been writing for this paper for – I guess – more than 10 years. I am a politics freak — and have been asked not to write about politics. I have complied, even as I have often had to tie my […]
WHAT IS THE TRUTH ????
On its surface, “truthfulness” seems like an open and shut case, but in many instances – it’s too “open.” There are some scientific facts that are — so far — undeniably true. Until further notice, the earth IS round. And yes – you either appeared at the XYZ train station at 10:00 a.m. last […]
RANDOM THOUGHTS
I try to impress upon my writing class, the importance of focus.” You must have a theme, a point of view, a message you want to convey,” I tell them, and for emphasis, I ask that they be able to verbally express, in one or two sentences, the premise of the writing. And so, with […]