I help a lot of students with their job searches. I like doing it. Who doesn’t love sharing the I-wish-I-knew-this-when-I-was-your-age wisdom? One of the key tenets in job search is “polite persistence.” My friend and HR expert Liz Ryan describes polite persistence brilliantly. She recounts stories of people who got no response more than a […]
Author: laurakornish
Pride-Swallowing Siege
The first fifteen seconds: “You don’t know what it’s like to me be ME out here for YOU. It’s an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will NEVER fully tell you about.” For several years, this rant captured how I felt as a mother. I did tell the offspring about it, but, I suppose, as Jerry […]
Dear Kitten
I like this (commercial) adaptation of the Sad Cat Diary: At 0:50: “It’s like sleeping surrounded by underwear.”
Humble and Kind
I have this song stuck in my head. At 1:25 “Let yourself feel the pride, but always stay humble and kind.”
Peer Evaluation in Old School
I was gripped by Tobias Wolff’s short novel Old School. Old School tells the story of an unnamed boy at boarding school. Life is difficult for this boy, the story’s narrator. My favorite detail is the deliberation at the Troubador, the school literary magazine, regarding which submissions should be selected for the next issue. The […]
I Love Anne Lamott
If I was going to be trapped on a desert island and could bring only one book, it would be Bird by Bird. This book lives on my nightstand. I pick it up when I need encouragement, inspiration, or company. Here are some of the parts I turn to. On being enough: All that I […]
Moms of Boys
A friend posted a link to this “moms of boys” post. This was the part I especially liked: I can tell from the pick up line at school who the moms of girls are and who has the boys. Moms of girls arrive early to chat with the teachers. They wear fresh makeup, cute wedges […]
Image Testing
Testing different image sizes. The 400×600 gets cropped to 400×550. The 600×400 shows the full thing. There are also specifications for 330×220 or 300×200. The 1000×200 shows the full thing. There are also specifications for 330×60 or 768×154. A 110×150 image (watches) is displayed as 625×550, so top and bottom are cropped. A 1750×1313 image […]