It is amazing how high a pile of little tasks can pile-up if you are not constantly on top of them. This is especially true when they are email related tasks - answer this, look at that, forward a document, take a survey, schedule a meeting, share your thoughts, review minutes, etc., etc. - and [...]
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This is about as smart as we are going to get.
Mike moved to a smartphone tonight. I strongly suggested that he get the same phone model Cheyenne and I have so that we could assist him with his smartphone learning curve. He wisely took my suggestion. Not that I am the queen of smartphone savvy. On the smartphone savvy ten-point scale, I am a solid five. [...]
Wanted: Really Special Sparkly Wand
It is hard to believe that we are already barreling toward the end of yet another semester. It is this time of year that I am torn between jumping for joy that an extended break is near and lamenting the fact that I won't have the opportunity to see my students for a few months. [...]
More than a house…
A house, no matter how large or majestic, is really just a shell. It is what you put into it that makes a home. And it is what you take out of it that makes it hard to ever see it again as just a house. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. said, "Where we love is [...]
Getting reacquainted…
Tonight while I was driving home it hit me that the landscape looked different. At one point I wondered if I had absentmindedly turned down the wrong street. There was a moment when things did not look familiar, but then it hit me - the snow has melted. This is the first time for many [...]
The evidence shows…
I think I am growing up. I know, it seems inconceivable. Alas, things have been happening lately - things that cause me to believe that soon I may be a reasonable adult. Whoa...that is scary stuff. I provide two examples of evidence of this phenomenon. 1. I was looking at a TGIF typography wall hanging [...]
Pass the Miracle Grow.
It is interesting the things you grow attached to - things that aren't even yours. This is on my mind presently because my daughter Sarah and her longtime partner Dusty sold their adorable little house this past week. In May they will move on to another home and a new chapter of their lives. The [...]
THE NEW FORTY 