by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 8, 2011 | for Mind
My first research paper—for my high school AP English class in 1982—still gives me nightmares. The process of typing out an enormous paper was foreign and intimidating. My topic: J.D. Salinger. I pulled an A, but not without pulling an all-nighter and much of my hair...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 28, 2011 | for Mind, for Money
Help With College My husband and I have a total of 14 years of college education. That's a lot of tuition and scads of (exorbitantly-priced) books and (tiny, white-walled) apartment rental and hot dogs and ramen soup. That's a long time to be poor. It's even longer...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 8, 2011 | for Mind, for Spirit
Alana, our third daughter, began her freshman year at Brigham Young University last week. This year, we have four kids in college—all at our alma mater. In addition to our newbie, Jessica just started graduate school, Belinda is a junior, and our new and wonderful...
by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 29, 2011 | for Good, for Mind
Buzzword of the day: discrimination. It's a word so emotionally and politically charged, that we can't seem to take a breath and insert logic on the subject. And everyone knows that discriminating against people is wrong. Discrimination is terrible! Discrimination is...
by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 20, 2011 | for Mind, for Money
I am a big believer in calculating return on investment. In accounting parlance: ROI = (gain from investment – cost of investment)/cost of investment But in layman's terms it means calculating the efficiency of an investment. It's the ratio of money gained (or...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jul 22, 2011 | for Mind, Logical Fallacy Examples
Logical Fallacy > Informal Fallacy > Ignoratio Elenchi > Argumentum Ad Populum Argumentum ad populum (appeal to the people, appeal to popularity) is an argument which concludes that a position must be true because many people believe it is true. Other Names...
