Today I want to share with you something that was shared on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Facebook Page. I re-posted it on Veteran Suicides - America's Shame Facebook Page, but I thought I should share it with all of you as well. I think we are too often divorced from the realities of [...]
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If You Build a Girl a Bookcase
There is a popular children's book titled, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, that I am sure most parents and grandparents are familiar with. The premise of the book that the cookie is only the beginning of a seemingly endless request list. The original book by Laura Numeroff has spawned a whole series of similar [...]
When nothing goes right, go left. ;-)
I saw a bracelet that said, "When nothing goes right, go left." It stuck with me. I liked the reminder that we have options in life and we don't have to resign ourselves to misery. I made me think of some of the statements I use that could be similarly modified to allow for a [...]
Michael Strand…help a spectator out.
Oscar Wilde once said,“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” Wilde's words have increasingly come to mind over the past month or so as I have pondered and watched others ponder the new piece of art in the AHSS Dean's Office. It is a very different piece and it has produced [...]
If only I owned a hair salon…
If I had a dollar for each time Cheyenne lamented - "Why can't you just own a hair salon or something? Why do you have to be in emergency management?" - I would have a fist full of dollars. It comes up every single time I reference anything about her safety or security. I am, [...]
Easily scarred…
I have always envied folks with a cast iron stomach. It seems they can eat just about anything without suffering any consequences. My stomach is more accurately described as a porcelain stomach - quite fragile. I would never survive one of those game shows where they make you eat weird disgusting things. I am not [...]
THE NEW FORTY 