February 18, 2021
In a former life I travelled extensively for work. I was involved with a couple of software start-ups, flying around the country to accompany sales reps on sales calls. They would shake hands, schmooze, and pay for drinks and dinner, Read more…
February 7, 2021
It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Or what I like to call… Just another Sunday. I’m not a sports fan. Yes, I used to play. I had good high school careers in football and baseball, I squandered my time in college baseball, Read more…
October 5, 2020
“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”~ Albert Einstein I’ve seen this meme, or ones similar to it, many Read more…
August 22, 2020
Methods of education are changing. Facilitated by constrictions created by a novel coronavirus, many are adapting to a new model of how we teach and how we learn. In This new digital era, the burden on students to learn has Read more…
August 20, 2020
If you know me, you know I’m not a sports fan. Many find that surprising considering how many sports I played, and for how many years I was competitive. This year, I have not seen one pitch of baseball, one Read more…
July 30, 2020
Back in April I wrote a column about planning for the 2020-2021 school year. The 2019-2020 year had just come to an abrupt halt, and there was an enormous amount of wasted time and energy spent trying to get kids Read more…
July 18, 2020
I’m exhausted. Not from lifting weights on my porch in 103-degree temperatures. That’s actually allowed me to maintain most of my strength while keeping my quarantine weight gain from forcing the earth to shift its axis. I’m exhausted by social Read more…
July 14, 2020
Back on April 17, 2020, shortly after being sent home to finish the school year on line, I wrote a column – “School’s Out! Let’s Move On!”. In it I discussed the need to accept the 2019-2020 school year was Read more…
June 19, 2020
Among the clamor around President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, OK, on June 20, 2020, is the request by his campaign that attendees sign a waiver releasing the President and his minions from any liability should participants contract COVID-19. But Read more…
May 21, 2020
I believe the story this week of two domestic Ford assembly plants opening/closing/opening is going to be, unfortunately, typical of restarting our economy. The situation raises several economic questions, at least in my mind, that I can’t seem to find Read more…
