Month: October 2023

It’s easy to give advice. I think I find it easy to take advice too. But for me to heed the words that I say to others? Not so easy. So this one is for…

Happy 700! Way back on February 8th, 2021 I shared a post with you, and we’ve been together every weekday since then. That’s 700 of them. It’s a fun kind of therapy for me, and…

Thank you to my friend Mary Pat and our Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence for allowing me to share my ideas on the INFUSE framework of mentoring. Do you have a mentor? Would you…

Yesterday, I shared with you the idea that your personal or career “origin story” might be more heroic than  you think. You know some of these superhero origin stories, even if you never read comic…

That’s a bold headline. You tell me. You might know that I’m a comic book geek from way back when, going back about half a century. (Didn’t I tell myself not to use that phrase…

It’s easy to give advice. I think I find it easy to take advice too. But for me to heed the words that I say to others? Not so easy. So this one is for…

Chicago Bears icon Dick Butkus passed away yesterday. When I played backyard football with my friends, I usually played linebacker. I would run around in the middle of the field, just looking for somebody to…

We’re getting toward the end of the week and to help us make it to the weekend, I’d like to share some more reasons why you are worth whatever you are being paid (or think…

Well now I’m just being confusing on purpose. This is about my old pal, Captain Al. That’s Al, as in Alan, not AI as in Artificial Intelligence. But it’s also about that, too. Back in…

I love summer. The daylight is long, the sleeves are short. Bike rides to the coffee shop, long walks with the dog, baseball games…. And it’s still nice enough outside to do these things. (Oh,…