Author: Geoffrey Hale
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Happy Pi Day!
In high school, I memorized 120 digits of pi and thought I was the coolest nerd in school. To my horror, a far more impressive nerd had memorized 180 digits and I lost the annual competition. My hopes and dreams of becoming the world’s greatest nerd were crushed, but I’ve still managed to become an…
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Top 5 Reasons Why You Love The Job You Hate
It’s Monday Morning, 5am in Dallas, and nothing is the same, except for everything at my job, where nothing has changed. The weekend before last, I spent two short sleepless days buried in Hale College. This past weekend, I took four days and emerged from my cave to spend time with a friend. Familiar job-griping…
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Clocks Go Forward Tonight For Daylight Time
It’s that time of year again! We lose an hour of sleep tonight. Daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March. That means Sunday, March 11 is the first day of Daylight Time. Don’t forget to set your clock ahead when you go to bed tonight. Officially, clocks are set…
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3 Methods of Emotional Preservation
It seems to me I’ve never stopped feeling anything. Healing seems to only ever take two forms. We can either distance ourselves from the emotion, which feels like temporary hiding, or find something to drown it out. This poses a unique problem as I retract from the New Age touchy-feely man I was to focus…
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Richard Halley From My Heart On Admiration
My experience playing piano for the last 20 years has been colored by a remarkable contrast between inward fulfillment and outward struggle ranging from sentiments of over-praise and under-praise, appreciation and misunderstanding, love and repulsion. I first started banging away at my mother’s Schafer and Sons upright piano when I was about 5. My parents…