Tag Archives: America

A Great Story to Tell Kids about Patriotism in the Classroom

May 4, 2009 – 8:44 pm

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Miss CalcUl8 (pictured left) is a great writer.  I enjoy her stories on my Google Reader very much.  Tonight I had to feature this one. It was too great! What’s here is just summary intro, click on the image to read the original story on her blog … enjoy :)
Back in September of 2005, on the [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Photos, Text/Link | Also tagged patriotism | Comments (0)

The Mob Mentality and How I am Dealing

October 9, 2008 – 8:41 am

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This is an opinion piece that includes religion.  I want to make clear that I value each of my individual readers and I hold no judgment against any chosen belief structure out there.  If you read this blog, you are intelligent.  If anything in this post offends someone out there, please disregard it.  The normally [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Self Improvement | Also tagged depression, financial meltdown, leadership, Spirituality, wall street | Comments (0)

Don't Crack Up, Go On Vacation

July 15, 2008 – 6:49 am

I just read that 460 million vacation days went unused last year by American workers … no wonder we have so many mental problems in our country! To all those people so worried about missing work I say this: “Be responsible, go on vacation!”

By Damien Riley | Posted in Health, Inspiration, Reviews, Self Improvement | Also tagged Health, Inspiration, life, Love, mental-health, Productivity, sick days, spouse, stress, vacation days, vacation time, Vacations | Comments (0)

9 Aspects of Classic Great Writing

April 18, 2008 – 9:41 am

You know it’s fitting that today when I went looking for a Twain photo I found one that was under a “reusable media” license. That is kind of a metaphor for what my 9 Authors, 9 Aspects of Powerful Writing guest post is about over at Confident Writing. One commenter there, Jim Murdoch, [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged art, article, blog, community, Confident, guest, idea, Jim Murdoch, Joanna, metaphor, novel, reading, Twain, url, Writing | Comments (0)

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