18 years ago, I attended my oldest child's high school graduation with my youngest child on my lap. Sarah was just shy of 18 at the time and Cheyenne was eight-weeks old. I remember the moment with absolute clarity. It was, in so many ways, both surreal and life affirming. I fully appreciated in that moment how [...]
I want to live in a world without email. I wonder if that world exists anywhere except in the backwoods of West Virginia or in a padded room somewhere. I wonder how emailing so quickly took over our lives as quickly as it did. A couple of decades ago email was not the number one [...]
I had an opportunity to speak to the mall tenants today about emergency management issues. I was excited to do so, even it was an 8 AM gathering which really isn't prime Carol time. Noah went along and sat in the back of the room. I asked him to cue me when I had used [...]
A year ago my grandson Lennon was born. It was a very joyous event and long in the coming. I waited a long time for his mom and dad to decide they were "ready" for a baby. I was ready years before they were. But I was made to wait...and wait...and wait - until June [...]
I have been contemplating a Facebook hiatus. I have read about others' Facebook vacations, which in some cases ended up being a complete vacation from the Internet. Can you imagine?? A vacation from the Internet - is that even possible for people like me? No Internet? It would be akin to being on a deserted [...]
My fortune from my fortune cookie today reads as follows: The measure of time to your next goal is the measure of your discipline. Ah, the wisdom of the fortune cookie. Once again, it nailed me. In fact, I found the fortune so prophetic that I taped it to my laptop where it could remind [...]
Welcome to the brand new year - 2012. If you are in the new forty you realize that 2012 is the future you heard about as a child that was going to be Jetson-like (as in - meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane, his wife). Heck, if you are in the new [...]
THE NEW FORTY 