Advertising… Friday Flick: Flashmob on Recycling 17 Jun 2011 Can you imagine if every gesture of conservation and kindness received such a welcome? Do it anyway.
Caring… Dead Grandmothers 9 Jun 20119 Jun 2011 We've been known to joke about it in faculty meetings: how many grandparents some students can lose in a single year. (And yes, we do name names.) Here's one professor's concerns…
Change the World… Copyright Honor 7 Jun 20117 Jun 2011 One of my alma maters is known for the strictest of honor ©odes. To matriculate, we signed our allegiance to academic integrity and high standards of personal ©onduct. From time…
Books… How Do I Know? 6 Jun 2011 A friend asked today, "How do I know if anyone wants to read what I'm going to write?" Great question! Here are my first three thoughts about that: 1) You…
Change the World… Friday Flick: Virtual Choir 3 Jun 2011 We're so glad Eric Whitacre did not make it as a pop star. Here's a TED talk on his composing and creating influences: Mozart and a fan on YouTube. It's…
College… College Endeavor 1 Jun 20111 Jun 2011 With the final landing of Endeavor, this shuttle chapter of space exploration will be closing soon. At the moment, I'm closing a college quarter and identifying with NASA. I have…
Academic Writing… My Favorite Kind of Payday 31 May 2011 In my introductory college skills class this quarter, a student told me about repeatedly sabotaging his final Naval promotion because at that level, he'd be required to write reports galore. Writing…
Blogging… Time Out 29 Apr 20115 May 2011 My computer has requested a break. It did break. Bad news: my three years of Apple Care have recently expired, and it's a defective logic board. "Sounds expensive," I say. "Very," says…
Blogging… Blessings of Daily Blogging 22 Apr 2011 Having posted daily almost a third of a year (six times a week with only two misses), I'm amazed that I'm still getting it done, and that it's been so easy. Here…
Blogging… “Show Me Difficult” 20 Apr 201122 Apr 2011 Werner Erhard often talks about things that exist only in language: "Show me Difficult. Whales do not find anything Difficult." And he also says something like, "I don't have 'too…
Commitment… Anne Egros on Goal Setting in 7 Steps 18 Apr 201116 Apr 2011 Anne Egros coaches people with international careers. I enjoyed her blog post: "Quick Goal Setting in Seven Steps," especially steps 2, 3, and 4, the steps between writing down your…
Change the World… In Case of Rejection 13 Apr 2011 As poet Wesley McNair braved rejections, his mentor Donald Hall comforted him with these observations: "These feelings simply do not end! Believe me I am sympathetic with your feelings, but…
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