Short Blog Hiatus Needed
I am swamped. Short blog hiatus between now and March 15 may be coming. During this 10 week quarter where I am teaching a class with 90+ students four days a week, the fluff time in my schedule is completely …
Category: Personal Development
Quiet
I know but I can’t say. Why is it that when people are tasked with keeping certain facts quiet they like to share them with me? Do I just have one of those faces? On the one hand, I feel …
Looking Forward
Parable of the Sower, a novel by Octavia Butler whose life was cut short, begins: All that you touch You Change. All that you change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. There is so much …
A year in review
I never did write a holiday letter to send out with the Christmas cards that I also did not mail this year. I could blame the snow storm and the lack of mail service during that critical time, but mostly …
Good Enough
A few weeks ago Kyra wrote about her feeling of being Never Good Enough. I have struggled with this feeling in the past, especially in my teens and twenties. It hurts to see other people having the same experience. I …
Confessions of an Introvert
I found a link to fabulous article, "caring for your introvert", on Brad Feld’s blog post entitled how to take care of your introvert. This article really hit home. I cannot express how exhausted I was when I first became …
The leaner you are, the richer you’ll get
I am sure that this article by Thomas Kostigen of Market Watch, analyzing a recent study looking at the impact of fitness on productivity and wealth, will upset some people. However, it is any surprise that tall and fit men …
October Slips By
This month slipped by. Trick-or-Treaters are ringing my doorbell. I have a plastic pumpkin full of candy. It’s interesting. Some of the children are so polite and grateful that I let them pick their own candy. They carefully select a …
Gambling and Grant Reviews
It has been a very long week. My husband and I spent Tuesday to Friday morning in New Orleans. My PhD thesis advisor is currently the president of the American Society for Human Genetics. I had not seen him in …
In search of joy
Last week I designed a new training plan to lose the extra 6 or 7 pounds of fat I am carrying. I tend to do better with a schedule, so I made a spreadsheet and posted it on my wall …