Month: September 2024

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a collection of Robert Fulghum essays published in 1986. The title essay, which you are surely familiar with (however; if you are not, here is a PDF with a couple of errors in the title and spelling), articulates literally and figuratively lessons frequently taught in American kindergartens.

A sample from the text:

These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody.

Some have criticized the wildly popular essay as being simplistic, trite, or treacly, but these people don’t remember the seed in the polystyrene cup or the bugs under the rock, or they have never had to come up with a good idea for a short, fun writing assignment for ninth-graders.

1. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert title of a favorite television series],” what are some lessons you’d include?
2. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert name of a favorite musician],” what are some lessons you’d include?
3. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert one of your hobbies],” what are some lessons you’d include?
4. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert title of a book you like],” what are some lessons you’d include?
5. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert something you’re terrible at doing],” what are some lessons you’d include?

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1. Which partially-read book would you especially like to finish someday, and why didn’t you finish it last time you read it?
2. Which partially-watched TV series would you like to complete?
3. Which half-completed task is nagging at you most insistently?
4. Which incomplete project is likeliest to get some attention in the near future?
5. Which half-consumed item in your refrigerator or pantry are you thinking about right now?

Thanks for participating, and have a charming, quaint, idyllic, picturesque, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and understanding?
2. How’s it going to be?
3. What’s new pussycat?
4. Why do fools fall in love?
5. Can you feel the love tonight?

Thanks for playing, and have a music-filled, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home (the first place) and the workplace (the second place). Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, libraries, gyms, bookstores, hackerspaces, stoops, parks, and theaters.

1. What is your usual third place these days?
2. How are your third place needs different today from some other time in your life?
3. What’s missing from your third places these days?
4. What kind of third places do you see yourself never frequenting?
5. Which third place in a television series would you most enjoy?

(and why is it Cheers?)

Thanks for participating, and have a better-than-decent, safe weekend! Go Raiders!