Linda's Loss
Getting older means you start toting up big and little losses on a fairly regular basis, though you try not to focus too much on that little slice of reality. You just take it, do your best, and move...
View ArticleThe Power of the Question: Going from 0-10
A few weeks ago, I led my Chico State Business students in a Strengths Finder workshop, which I was able to do thanks to a grant I had received to support the purchase of supplies. Now this seminar...
View ArticleJumping the Streams: Life Decades Project Pt. 2
Already I am cheating on the intent of this effort, which was to examine my student’s hypothesis that every decade we each are an entirely different person. I don’t doubt that, with the caveat that...
View Article"Love is So Short, Forgetting is So Long" - The Years 15-20
It’s been posited (though controversial) that every seven years our cells turn over and we are physically different people literally inhabiting different bodies. Lately I have been exploring the...
View ArticleLife Lessons Age 20 - 30: Mercy Me, Mercy Everybody
Looking back in life to me from 20 to 30 years of age, I can only envy (in a way) those who sailed through without much struggle or trauma. Here we go, with a little context provided. Life Lessons...
View ArticleOpening the Door to Karmageddon: Life from 30-40 Years
The decisions I made in the decade of years spanning 30-40 would set the stage for what my life would be forever after. Of course, any of us could say that, but now I was making decisions less...
View ArticleThe Final Answer
So, do we become entirely different people every decade or so? That’s the question I started with a few posts ago. I looked at lessons learned decade by decade in relation to my changing self. Of...
View ArticleThe Long Pause
I took a break from my blog to write the old fashioned way – in notebooks. Last year I just decided to tell myself random true stories of people and occasions that have meant a lot to me during the...
View ArticleDeviant Behavior Alert!
I’ve been gathering up news items surrounding the recent GM ignition disasters to prepare for the ethics portion of my fall management classes. After the Pinto fiasco of the 70’s, the Challenger...
View ArticleNeed An Identity Makeover? Look No Further.
Oh boy, a new book, Jennifer, Gwyneth and Me details author Rachel Bertsche’s year of emulating the lifestyles of several celebrities one month at a time. That means practicing being the best of...
View ArticleAurgh! Chico Auto Dealer
Well, I teach business/management, so I think I am justified in what I am about to say. Recently, an unnamed dealership service manager representative did me a solid by offering to plead my case to the...
View ArticleThe Inescapable, Imponderable, Unavoidable Art of Losing
From the poet Elizabeth Bishop: "The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent /to be lost that their loss is no disaster/ Lose something every day/ Accept the...
View ArticleCan You Love Your Children Too Much?
Today's text and question from my daughter as we discussed my granddaughter, currently in college, and recently accepted to participate in a trip to Guatamala in 2019. Understandably my daughter is...
View ArticleAfter the Camp Fire: Aftermath
My fellow Butte County Volunteers: We are, most of us, past the acute phase of crisis, and into the period of "aftermath". Even our survivors, we see, have lost much. I noticed today that in some...
View ArticleThe Seventh Year of Sporadic Writing: I Reintroduce Myself
The Beginning of I Am I am eggshells, From Dippity-Do and Little Women. I am from pink bricks, cluttered rooms, and tiny windows, Volatile, longing, mother bent over full baskets and an ironing board....
View ArticleElephants on Parade
I'd forgotten I wrote this, but here's a post from a few years back from a "teacher's blog" I used to do. Sadly, I don't think much has changed in the past couple of years in terms of serious student...
View ArticlePicking Bones
“I have a bone to pick with you,” Mom said as soon as I opened the door. I took the letter she held in her hands and froze. It was from Mike, my top-secret pen pal, a U.S Marine fighting in Viet Nam....
View ArticleOf Adventure and Loss, And All That Remains
My summer months included a European journey, inspiring for its bounty of intricately designed, painstakingly built structures that have stood strong against the odds for centuries. How is it that...
View ArticleWho Do You Think I Am?
…says every living being in some manner, implicitly or aloud. You, I, the tiny cell under a microscope under scientific observation, the lime-colored baby lizard playing chase with me this morning...
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