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Leaving Things Unsaid Some people are as quiet as a grave, believing it’s best to keep things to themselves. Some people think words have a way of getting into places they weren’t meant to be. These are thoughts from and about the main character, Tom, in the book, The Light Between the Oceans by M.L.…

Learning from Other Communicators All of us have our own style of communication. I’ve found that there are many ways to communicate, and the method we choose depends on what we want to say and to whom we want to say it. The printed and the spoken word are two main ways we communicate. In…

Communicating Peace Amidst the Rift Quoting from Brad E. Sachs Ph.D. from an article he wrote in Psychology Today, “At this time, demographic data indicate that about 25 percent of the U.S. population is estranged from, or has cut ties with, a close relative at any one time, and 10 percent of the population is…

A Foreign Language I went to junior high school in Durango, Colorado. Spanish 101 was a required class.  My teacher, Mr. Hernandez, worked overtime helping me learn the language. After school, I went to his classroom and picked up armloads of 45-rpm records, recordings of elementary Spanish lessons.  The beads of sweat on his upper…