Today, I will share with you what I posted on my Facebook in commemoration of Memorial Day. I know many a veteran, my son Noah being one of them, and I feel the disconnect between their service and legislators' respect of that service via deeds. There are always plenty platitudes about military service and what [...]
Tag: integrity
Where your truth lives naked…
Of the things I hold on tightly to - in addition to the people and creatures I love and care about - is my integrity. I have learned over my decades on the planet that integrity is critical in making life decisions easier and living with the decisions that are made. Not that it is [...]
Stand for something…
I have been told before that I can be intimidating. The first few times I heard this comment I found it laughable. But I continued to hear it from time to time and I was forced to acknowledge that there are some situations in which I can be intimidating - all 5 feet, 2 1/2 [...]
Taking full responsibility…
Matthew Cordle, age 22, killed a man on June 22, 2013, in Ohio. He was intoxicated after a night of heavy drinking and drove the wrong-way on Interstate 670 hitting another car. Vincent Canzani (age 61) died as a result of Cordle's actions. This type of accident happens too often. Impaired drivers get in their [...]
My heart is a tiny piece of coal…
One of the things that college faculty become well-acquainted with are excuses. After teaching for a few years you recognize that the same old excuses come up again and again. I don't pay too much mind to excuses. My students know there are limits to my flexibility and my patience. They know that I will [...]
Breach of contract?
The latest victim of sequestration appears to be military tuition assistance. This is the money for college that factored into many folks' decisions to join the military. Tuition assistance was promised by the government as part of the package - it was part of the contract. It appears to me that the government is prepared [...]
It is time for the Herd to be heard…
Integrity is sometimes difficult to define, but we tend to know it when we see it. At the very least it can be said to be consistency between what we say and what we do over time. Ideally, it is also a statement of honesty, fairness, and character. Integrity simply put (in The New Forty dictionary) is [...]
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