Reflections and Review
Make a difference and write it down — out of your head and onto paper

Reflections and Reviews of Stories
My stories for July 2022 are about writing tips, personal memories, world events, strategies for instruction design and technology, and how to cope.
Write About It
Your unique words and life experiences transport thoughts from your head to your voice to hand off to others

Gamification — What’s That — Who Needs It and Why
How to increase motivation and captivate attention at school and at work

Let it Go
The good, the bad, and the ugly

Easy Ways to Learn American English Idioms
Slang and sayings are difficult to learn in a second language

Talk Back to Self-Talk
Effective ways to stop being too hard on yourself

Meditation Is the Missing Link
Between Bible intake and prayer

How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
Dogs in my memories keep dogging me

3 Easy Spelling Tricks
Sing along with me and make a funny melody

4 Easy Ways to Map Your Direction When You Lose Your Way
Be alert and ask to become aware of what is ahead

Assassination in Japan Shocks the World
You will remember that day even if you try to forget

3 Ways to Overcome Fear
Trust God to show the way forward

3 Reasons Pruning Makes a Difference
Truth is beauty and beauty is truth

Jan. 6 Hearings and the Rule of Law
Right and left extremes are more alike than different with love in the center

Love Story
Father loves his son

The Day the Skunk Came to Our House
Move out and open the freezer

Blame Me
Your truth, my truth, THE truth

4 Quick Questions to Overcome Depression
Reverse the damage to your body and face the truth

My Phone Is at the Bottom of the Lake
Lost and found backup

Foggy Decisions: When Up Is Down and Down Is Up
Trust the instruments in the fog when you can’t see ahead

4 Ways to View Humpty Dumpty
Folly that fails to show cracks before a fall

You Should be Over It by Now
You just can’t shake those memories away

The Night the Roaches Invaded
In the food in my hair in the coffee

So That’s What You Think of Me
Perceptions of others are revealed by our thoughts and words

Fire and Ice: The End of the World
Extremes are more alike than they are different in climate change

Easy Help for Learning English
Just ask

Words Are Weapons: Comparing Fascism and Communism
Finding the middle ground of respect in the maze of words

3 Easy Ways to Capture That Thought
See it — say it — write it down

Justification and Sanctification
Define terms and delineate applications

Steelpan Drums and Google Doodle
What’s that sound? I like it!

Backup or Clean Up
One word or two

Endure and Enjoy
Both ends matter

A Little Dab’ll Do Ya
Dealing with loss with the mask of deception, abuse, betrayal
