Well, it is clear that the ramp up for Halloween has begun in earnest. All my favorite girly girl shops are sending me emails about costume sales. There is no end to the assortment of near-nothing, erotic costumes you can buy this time of year. Most of the costumes I have seen are clearly geared [...]
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The Responsibility Project…exploring what it means to do the right thing.
You'll never catch me touting corporate America as the moral center of the world as we know it, but every once in awhile they do something right and I find myself impressed with the effort. Now, I'll acknowledge at the outset the same thing I always acknowledge when I speak of such things - I [...]
These things I remember…
My hard drive is full. The hard drive that is my brain that is. I wish the brain was the same as a computer where you could just add new memory as needed. If that was possible I would have long ago upped my memory capacity exponentially. Alas, absent that avenue I am stuck with [...]
Normal or Nuts?
I was going through an old stack of magazines and on the cover of the Reader's Digest, June 2007 edition, I saw this: Normal or Nuts? Test Yourself Hmmmm...something is wrong with this premise. I need to work it through...there is a test...the test will tell you if you are normal or nuts. But, if [...]
What a teacher makes…
I am a fan of spoken poetry. I don't mean poetry written in a book that is then read aloud. I mean poetry that is created to be spoken. Well, spoken is really an understatement - perform is a better term. I was introduced to spoken poetry through Def Poetry (a show on many moons [...]
Act your age!
The great Satchel Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" When I was younger I didn't understand the potency of this question. In the new forty I not only understand it - I have a response - 25. If I did not know how [...]
No chocolate balls…
In my disaster preparedness class my students are tasked with creating a public service announcement (PSA) that promotes individual and household preparedness. The PSA project is designed to get them thinking about what it takes to sell a message. So far, the folks in my field have not been wildly successful in "selling" citizen preparedness [...]
THE NEW FORTY 