1. Embrace Challenges Understand that Zoom calls will become tedious, workplace confrontations create discomfort, and your father may be fatally poisoned by an enemy clan. 2. Use Both Sides of Your Brain to Problem Solve Logic clarifies facts and rationalizes situations (okay, so you’re one of seven kids cared for by a single mother, you’ve just been kicked out of your clan, and now you’re sitting in the snow). Meanwhile, creativity increases the methods and odds of finding solutions (you may only be ten years old, but you’re gonna have to get realllllll creative with that sharpened stick over there). …
Author: May Gauthier
May Gauthier
I'm a lover of a number of things, but the most relevant here is historical fiction. I have heaps of fun while learning how people in past societies spoke, dressed, ate, and entertained themselves. Once armed with these rich details, I get to go nuts with the story lines. This crossroads of learning and inventing is a pretty cool place to get to camp out, at least for me. The Troubadour (humor) and Religion Unplugged (historical) have previously published my work.
By 3:16 a.m., all 2.5 million persons living within the thirteen colonies have awakened and begun the day. At exactly 5:02 a.m., Thomas Jefferson snapped at one of his six hundred slaves for purportedly taking too long to prepare his egg. He fluffed a ruffle in his collar and wondered why no one respected or understood all he did to secure individuals their freedom! Around 7 a.m., as he’s having a bit of sweetcorn and porridge, Charles Carroll of Carrollton begins to second guess himself. “Why only sign my name ‘Charles Carroll of Carrollton?’ That could really be referring to…