We wrote in our last blog about awesome female authors. In the same way that we need to read books by female authors, we also need to see strong female protagonists in literature, especially children’s literature. It is about empowerment! Books can be mirrors or windows. Female readers need to see their likeness reflected back […]
March 8 is International Women’s Day which is intended to celebrate women’s achievements be they social, economic, political, or cultural. At Make a Way Media, we love books so we wanted to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about some amazing female authors. Did you know there was a time when women weren’t […]
At the core of the First Amendment right to free speech, assembly, and religion is the right to free thought. We think (most of the time) before we speak. We think before we discuss our ideas and plans with others and decide to assemble. We think (and believe) which determines how or whether we perform […]
Showing empathy isn’t difficult, but it does require that we be intentional. Being intentional means that we focus our full attention. The act of being intentional has become more difficult as our lives have become busier. We have devices and tools that take our attention away from what we’re doing and spread it out in […]
When we think about the purposes of writing, there are generally three categories: we write to inform, to entertain, and to persuade. As readers, we are the recipients of information, entertainment, and persuasion. Stories have been a part of human history forever. Early humans told stories to explain a world that was confusing to them […]
February is the month of love, but it is kind of nice that it has become a month of all kinds of love, not just romantic love. Romantic love is wonderful, of course. But not everyone has a romantic sweetheart, or maybe they’ve been married to their romantic sweetheart for 30 years and don’t muster […]
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