Author Archives: Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Women Need To Share More War Stories

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately.  It’s one of the primary reasons why we’re stuck in the pay inequity, slow-promotion-to-the-top situation that has little to do with whether we have babies or not and more to do with … Continue reading →

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Parkinson’s Patients Make A Huge Difference in Seeking a Cure

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Today on Big Think, I posted the blog “Parkinson’s Patients ‘Roar’ On Faster Route to a Cure.”  PD patients are having a louder voice than every before in defining PD, finding treatments and seeking a cure.  Ironically, people with PD … Continue reading →

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David Brooks on Suffering – Parkinson’s Awareness Month

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

This essay by David Brooks is well worth a read.  We all suffer at times and when we’re fortunate, we learn from that pain.  One of the best lessons I learned in life having breast cancer at age 32 and … Continue reading →

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Complementing the Campaign to Banish the Term “Bossy”

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Banning of the word “bossy” as it is often used to describe women who take charge is a goal set by Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In and a worthy one.  If nothing else, attention to the term and its … Continue reading →

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Persuasion Often Relies on Habits of the Mind

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

That’s what my blog on Huffpo today is really about — habits of mind that we neglect to question.  We devote an insufficient amount of time educating ourselves and our children to recognize when we and they are being handed … Continue reading →

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Connecticut Post Introduces Shadow Campus

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Bridgeport (Born) Academic Makes Mystery Writer Debut Bridgeport native and former Stratford High School teacher Kathleen Kelley Reardon has made her debut as a novelist with “Shadow Campus” (Blue Mustang Press, $14.95), about the mystery surrounding the attempted suicide of a young professor on the … Continue reading →

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Click on “Artwork” Above to See Sampling of Recent Art

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

16″ x 20″ seaside sea inspired by Rolling Water Bay in West Cork Ireland. Continue reading →

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Navigating This Blog (Also a few thoughts on insult vs. offense)

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Thought I’d remind anyone coming by for the first time that categories of blog types are listed in the right column of this page.  If you’re looking for more on communication or suggestions specific to women, for example, you can … Continue reading →

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In Journalism, There is Such a Thing as an Accurate Story

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

The blog below was posted today on Huffington Post.  While there are terrific programs on PBS, according to the Baltimore Sun, the size of NewHour’s audience was down from 2.5 million in 2005  to 1.5 million in October of 2013. … Continue reading →

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Shadow Campus: The “House of Cards” of Academia

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Forbes described it as a “masterful debut mystery.”  Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of Unhooked, wrote she was “hooked from the beginning.”  Christiane Amanpour singled it out as one of the few fiction books she plans to find time to … Continue reading →

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