Tonight let me share with you a visual that I carried with me in my mind's eye all day. The visual was the memory of a real life event that occurred this morning and that was captured in my bathroom mirror. As is true of most days, I was hurrying and trying to get down [...]
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“How many kids should you have?”
Oh my email...it makes me smile. Today WebMD asked, "How many kids should you have?" The article went on to discuss what the perfect number of kids are for different families, but of course long before I read the article I came up with my own series of answers/counter-questions. How much hair do you [...]
Death by PowerPoint – not always a homicide…
Have you ever heard the saying - death by Powerpoint? I always thought it was something that was inflicted upon you, but today I have been working on putting together two PowerPoint presentations for next week and I now realize it can be self-inflicted. Slide designs, color schemes, animation, photos, consistency in size and font, [...]
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Lately I feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (or perhaps better stated Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde). A split personality is emerging and I fear my rationality will be overtaken by frivolity and a lack of appreciation for consequences. Every day I find it more difficult to contain my Ms. Hyde. Try as I [...]
Today there is very little bliss in the unawareness…
I must admit that I am not in the loop of all the high level goings-on at NDSU. I hear things here and there, but I do not have a pipeline into the What's Really Happening at NDSU network. I think that is a blessing on some fronts - to be blissfully unaware. Although, I [...]
On orange sherbet…
On my way back to the campus from my Lions meeting on Monday I was able to document, not one, not two, but three sightings of forward fashion movement. I was so excited! I didn't realize how much these sightings would mean to me. Of note, all three sightings were ladies, all were wearing skirts [...]
Trust
Trust - small word, big concept. As I have grown older my appreciation of the value of trust has magnified. When I was younger, I was better able to believe that trust could be rebuilt after multiple breaches. Over the years I have realized that multiple breaches after awhile are akin to breaches in a [...]
THE NEW FORTY 