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Be More Vader: A Review in Reactions

Author: Christian BlauveltPublisher: London: Dorling Kindersley, 2018Subjects: Assertiveness (Psychology), Success in Business, Star Wars, HumorPages: 68Summary: Move from apprentice to master with assertiveness advice from the Star Wars galaxy’s most powerful leaders, including Darth Vader, Palpatine, and Supreme Leader Snoke. Negotiating the workplace can be an impossible task, especially if that workplace is a towering,...

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Trying to be more organized

This week I’m trying to be more thoughtful and organized about how I approach my day. As I get older and take more on, my chaotic, shoot-from-the-hip style of time managment isn’t cutting the mustard. Not only am I becoming more involved in projects at the library, I’m also managing the social media and web...

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Five Songs Friday: R&B

Here are 5 songs that keep coming back around on my playlists.

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Let’s talk Antiheroes

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, 1941 “I’ve no earthly reason to think I can trust you, and, if I do this and get away with it, you’ll have something on me that you can use whenever you want to. Since I’ve got something on you, I couldn’t be sure that you...

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Mixtape: Reading Comics

Sometimes when you read you just want to immerse yourself as much as possible. A good playlist will go a long way to keeping you in the zone! Here’s something I threw together for when I like to read comics.

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Fear

I love monsters, and Bela Lugosi’s Dracula still holds a special place in my heart. I remember watching it when I was a kid and being so nervous. Of course it lacked the real sense of terror I’d become accustomed to with my vampire flicks (Fright Night, Lost Boys) but something about that movie stuck...

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12 and 20

We came together in a crash. Not the fleeting shower of sparks of a hammer on forge-hot steel, but the violent, white-hot explosion of a supernova that blinds and burns everything it touches for lightyears. We did not burn, though. We smoldered with the selfish infatuation and desire of the young. We danced across blackened...

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1.5 seconds

I’ve been kicking around the notion of playing with mixed media, where i create art over photography. While on my way to a meeting at the Downtown branch, I happened to look up with the Devon Tower looming over me, the sun just behind the glass spire. I thought it looked cool, so I pulled...

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On Grief and Love

“Grief can destroy you –or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just...

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