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Little adjustments

25 Saturday Jan 2014

Posted by Meghan Frick in Life

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I’ve written about this a little before but, when my dad was teaching me how to drive, he repeated one phrase over and over: Little adjustments, he’d say. Just little adjustments.

It was like a mantra he needed to keep himself from grabbing the wheel and returning it to the hands of a licensed driver. Little adjustments. He meant that turning wasn’t a matter of flipping the entire wheel over itself, but I’ve thought of the phrase ever since as a good piece of advice for living, not just driving a car.

There is no such thing as overhauling your life in one giant push of effort, no such thing as a smooth, consistent journey toward whatever goal you’re reaching.

You keep going. You stumble. You walk ten miles and fall 15 back.

But you keep walking, you keep learning and hurting and pushing and being alive. You keep stumbling forward, making little adjustments along the way.

[Clip] Students’ field trip has them building ‘bots

24 Friday Jan 2014

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This article was published in the Lenoir News-Topic.

In a classroom-style building tucked into the corner of one of the old Shuford Mills buildings, all chipping paint on brick walls, 10 sixth-graders from Granite Falls Middle School wearing safety glasses put parts and pieces together, making robots.

The students spent their half-day on Friday making what they called eggbots — basically, robots capable of drawing on spherical surfaces the size of eggs — at Foothills Community Workshop. In this case, the spherical surface used was ping-pong ball.

Each eggbot can be connected to a computer and is driven by two motors — one that turns the ball (or egg) back and forth, and one that moves an attached pen across the ball’s surface. The machines can take any design made in a drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator — or Inkscape, an open-source version that the Foothills Community Workshop folks like to use — and recreate it on the surface of a spherical object. Continue reading →

[Clip] Caldwell Relay for Life kicks off

24 Friday Jan 2014

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This article was published in the Lenoir News-Topic.

A 10-year-old boy crafts bird feeders out of peanut butter, birdseed and bagels. A cancer survivor plans a yearly golf tournament. A teacher creates handmade coasters.

And it’s all done with one thing in mind: a cure for cancer.

In Caldwell County and elsewhere, most people experience one night of Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society’s primary fundraiser. But that night of walking and camping out around a track is the culmination of months of fundraising.

“We Relay all year,” volunteer Christina McLean said. “We’re thinking and trying to do something all year long.” Continue reading →

Quotes about writing that push me through the block

02 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by Meghan Frick in Work

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These are the words I’ve got scrawled on sticky notes on my bedroom wall, propped up around my desk at work and (in some cases) committed to memory, all on standby for the times when I forget why all this clicking and scrawling and immersion in words is worthwhile. I thought they  might inspire you as well.

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Here’s to 2014.

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Meghan Frick in Life

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The passing of years is insignificant in the world of real things, a creation of structure-craving humans who invent calendars and mark the ripping of pages in an effort to pretend the real change doesn’t happen in minutes, doesn’t take us by surprise.

There’s plenty I’d like to change about my life as 2013 staggers to a close, and I will probably try to catch it in words and lists, but I want to remember, too, that all the best things in my life have been unplanned. Continue reading →

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