UNDER THE WILL… OVER THE DRAMA…

Tag: education

  • Devotion Over Diplomas…

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    Mae Faurel
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    Now this one? I’ve got my opinions. Buckle up. First off, what even is a profession? If we’re talking about the kind that requires you to be “properly” educated, trained, and certified by the same system that keeps most of us stuck, then no, I don’t admire professions. I question them. Because who decides what…

  • Episode 54 – Fresh Tarmac & Familiar Tire Tracks.

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    Fresh Tarmac & Familiar Tire Tracks Or: How Bully Yates Marks His Territory I bumped into a childhood friend today, someone I hadn’t seen in years. We laughed, we caught up and then we landed, as these things tend to go, on him. Yes, our favorite walking caution sign: Bully Yates. Turns out, it wasn’t…

  • Episode 40 – The General and His Ghostwriter.

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    There’s a strange kind of theatre playing out in our family. Picture it: Bully, stomping around center stage in his well-worn boots, barking orders like he’s head of a small country no one asked to visit. The audience? Mostly cows. Occasionally confused neighbors. And somewhere offstage, dimly lit, is my sister – headset on, clipboard…

  • Calling Out The Myth…

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    Mae Faurel
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    Calling Out the Myth: When Family Bullying Isn’t ‘Just Family’. They say ‘that’s just how he is or ‘It’s family – let it go’. But what happens when ‘just family’ starts to feel like just survival? There’s a myth that bullying ends when you leave school or that it only looks like shoves and name-calling.…