I've always thought that the highest compliment you could give or receive is that you have made a positive difference in someone's life. To make a difference is a great way of giving meaning to your life. And you don't have to be famous to make such a difference. But as a recent New York … Continue reading Living a Meaningful Life
Back in December, I wrote a post about how I had taken a quiz on my knowledge of stories from last year's Wall Street Journal. Here's what I wrote at the time: "...since I read, and tweet, the WSJ every day, and often reference stories from the Journal in my classes, I thought this is the … Continue reading This Is Why You Just Can’t Read the Headlines
One of my students told me about a school he had looked into for college, a school I had never heard of. I asked him if he could send me info on the program, and a couple of hours later he had sent me a link to the school as well as a couple of … Continue reading Is This the Future of Higher Education?
It seems as if the issue of loneliness is everywhere. A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the "isolation epidemic". In that post, I noted that in 2016, Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared that isolation was the most common disease in the U.S. Social isolation and loneliness have been associated with major negative health effects … Continue reading One Is the Loneliest Number
I was listening to the radio today and a story came on about the housing market, and the reporter referred to people "moving up". I then became curious about how often people "moved up", or more broadly, how often people changed houses. So it was Google time when I got home, and what I found … Continue reading Why Do People Move So Often?
"By now you’ve heard it." That was how the story began, and of course it wasn't true. As I noted in an earlier blog post, sometimes I'm a little behind the times in terms of what's "hip" on the music scene. In that post I shared how I had never heard of the hit song … Continue reading “Slowly” Catching-up with Pop Culture Once Again
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My wife and I were at the funeral today for Chuck, the brother of a good friend of ours. Chuck had served in the U.S. Marines, and as part of the funeral service, two Marines came in and saluted the deceased and then proceeded to unfold the U.S. flag. Once it was unfolded, the two … Continue reading Is There a More Haunting Song Than This?
I thought I'd share some of the recent comments I've received on my blog, perhaps reading what others have to say may encourage you to post a comment or two. While I fully realize these comments are all spam, crated by spam bots, for who knows what purpose, I'll admit it is somewhat gratifying reading … Continue reading Who Needs Fake News When You’ve Got Fake Comments
Seth Godin had a short and sweet blog post today about taking responsibility. Seth uses a baseball analogy, that of calling for a fly ball. When two players are both in a position to make the catch, Seth notes that a player will yell "I got it!", as a way of taking responsibility for making … Continue reading “I Got It! I Got It!”
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