Convocation. From a new perspective.
I palmed my phone and tried to stifle a grin as I walked into chapel for my first university convocation as a faculty member. I …
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I stood in the cafeteria entrance with a permagrin on my face. “Welcome to lunch!” I crowed , pointing dazed Moms and Nikon-laden Dads towards …
an update on being “good enough”…
…the GMAT Earlier this summer, I took the GMAT with mixed results. Actually, I was convinced that I bombed and that I was going to …
What rope are you climbing?
Remember when you were a kid in gym class and you had to climb the rope attached to the ceiling? It was hard business for …
on leaving the firm…
I received an email earlier this week inviting me to attend a marketing meeting at Hilger Hammond, and it reminded me that I’m right on …
on wisps of passing thoughts…
The last two months have been pretty abysmal for my personal writing. It always gets shoved to the bottom of my to-do list, and when …
…on new jobs and finding my melody…
If I had been able to afford Houghton College, I would have never attended Cornerstone College, eight hours from my family. If I had lost …
“Teaching Becomes the Gift”….Reflections on “Many Communicate, Few Connect” by John C. Maxwell
I have spent almost every waking moment this week buried in the books and materials for the J-Term class I am in the middle of …
scribbled-out tasks on my rumpled to-do list…
The past month or so has blown by in a blur of holiday gatherings, final exams, cookie making, and plenty of “nose to the grindstone” …
on finding the reason…
When I agreed to teach a public speaking class this fall, I did it with a bit of resignation. Sure…okay…whatever…. I had a bit of …
