Alabama is a lush and lovely state - I enjoyed my short visit there. It isn't a state I could ever live in though as my hair and the weather had irreconcilable differences. Thankfully, even though the weather caused me to suffer aesthetically, it was physically quite bearable. The FEMA course went well and it [...]
Tag: FEMA
Staying away from the preacher!
Today I write my blog from the wild blue yonder - literally. I am writing as I sit on a Delta flight heading from Minneapolis to Atlanta. It is a beautiful morning up here above the fluffy clouds. I sit here with my cup of Burger King coffee, a head full of thoughts and an [...]
Putting the wabi back in my sabi…
Last year about this time I wrote about wabi sabi in my blog. Wabi sabi (which comes out of Japanese ideology) focuses on the beauty in imperfection and the wisdom in being satisfied with what you have (as opposed to wishing for or always striving for more). My wabi sabi focus tends to be one [...]
Book early…
Let me be amongst the first to say this winter - SNOW BLOWS! We aren't even 24 hours into the first significant snowfall of the season and I am already ready to go on record as saying I am over it. Unfortunately, the word is that there is much more of this to come this [...]
Going viral…
On Saturday of last week I encouraged you to check out North Dakota Bois a video created by Ammon Miller and friends that parodies Katy Perry's California Gurls on YouTube (see North Dakota Bois - now that's hot!). At the time the video was only a couple of days old (it originally posted on 8/12) [...]
OMG – WTF!
I teach in the land of acronyms – emergency management (which has its own acronym – EM). We have so many acronyms in EM that we have to have a book that lists them all. The book, titled FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms, features 4,200 acronyms on 160 pages. You gotta’ love that they have [...]
THE NEW FORTY 