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What’s in a Nickname?
*** Do you have the right nickname? I know this is probably a question that keeps you up at night and leaves you restless. Surely, you jest, you are thinking. Who cares about a nickname? Well, I, for one, do care, but it’s only because I’ve recently acquired a nickname from my esteemed colleagues, Chip and Leeanne, that I actually quite enjoy. We had all read the book and seen the film “The Help.” During the conversation about the movie and if it actually did live up to the book, the two of them started calling me (well, Chip instigated it) “Skeeter” based on Miss Skeeter, a wanna-be novelist main…
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Choices: In Life, Literature, and Wicked
When Jacob Jankowski decides to stow away on a circus train in Water for Elephants, his choice alters the course of his life. When Miss Skeeter decides to involve “the help” as sources for a book she decides to write in The Help, that choice affects all of their lives. When Ebenezer Scrooge decides to take the painful and frightening advice of three spirits, his life, and the lives of others, are changed from that point forward in A Christmas Carol. Choices. We make them every day. Choices such as whether to add a stick of butter to our bread, to water the flowers, to make a run to the…
