tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74738970638533330152024-02-08T03:07:06.355-08:00Advice About AllToffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17686181637740467937noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473897063853333015.post-56074037901189820302019-03-01T18:17:00.000-08:002014-03-26T18:52:52.174-07:00For all who seek a listener...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Advice About All is a place for you to ask for advice, an opinion, anything. Any topic is ok, whether it is about relationships, school, work, shopping, how to use a computer, what to say in a thank you card… anything. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will do my best to help, or get help.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each question will be posted with my reply and a couple of other readers' (like you) replies. My ideals are more liberal than some and you should get a well-rounded group of responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4. I know that with a little power comes a little responsibility, please don't hold my ideas against me. What you choose to do with what I say is up to you.</span><br />
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Toffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17686181637740467937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473897063853333015.post-60910692220305841522014-03-22T18:22:00.002-07:002014-03-22T18:25:55.603-07:00Young Adult - Defined<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear Toffel,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So many movies are coming out for "Young Adults", many of them starting as YA novels. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thoroughly enjoyed the whole "Hunger Games" series and the movies, so far. I feel that "Divergent" flexed my imagination more than most books I've read.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> What exactly is "Young Adult"? I don't really get it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Older Adult</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Older,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have searched many sources and keep coming up with an age range. Taking the two ends of the spectrum from them, a young adult is anyone between 12 and 24.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> That being said, I worked in and managed a children's bookstore for many years and the rule I learned there and from a couple of conventions I went to of the American Booksellers Association was that there must be a teenage protagonist. This may not be the case any longer. It is in the case of both "Divergent" & the "Hunger Games" series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Toffel</span></span><br />
<br />Toffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17686181637740467937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473897063853333015.post-77689717650067458892014-03-21T12:06:00.003-07:002014-03-21T12:06:44.815-07:00Dinner Party Difficulties<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear Toffel,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am going to a dinner party with a bunch of people. By no means am I uneducated, but I am afraid it may be a free-for-all with trying to sound the most "intellectual" and "deep".</span><br />
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Do you have any ideas or advice for conversation and being more at-ease in the situation?</span><br />
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Thanks,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Insecure in Iowa</span><br />
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Dear Insecure,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />First, some advice:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use your listening ears. People love to talk and merely by agreeing or disagreeing, you will be remembered as a great conversationalist.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Memorize everyone's name and use them. EVERYBODY loves to hear their own name.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next, a couple of conversation starters:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if our brains were the auxiliary brains and the real functioning organ was our hearts? </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every time a person got a heart transplant, they would get a new personality and a whole host of new psychological problems. On the other hand, their old Psychological problems would be gone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What superpower would you choose, flight or invisibility? Why?</span></li>
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Ok, those are my initial thoughts. Who wants to chime in?</span><br />
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~Toffel</span>Toffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17686181637740467937noreply@blogger.com0