Tag: challenge

Good News idea: Ring that bell

Pretty soon you’ll start hearing a familiar Christmas jingle. No, I don’t mean the annoying Christmas muzak you’ll hear at the grocery store. I mean the jingle of the bell ringer outside. If you’ve rushed by the red kettle as quickly as possible your whole life, maybe you don’t know that it’s a fundraiser for…

November 11, 2011
New is dangerous, old is noble

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ~Warren Chappell (1904-1991) I find that people have a curious attitude towards new ways of doing things. If I were to tell you that part of my job is to remain informed by reading journals on the study of adolescence,…

March 11, 2011
Cultural Engagement Strategy

Have you ever opened your eyes underwater? You know, without goggles? All of the underwater world is a blur. Sure, you can see stuff but you can only see things nearby and its nothing like what you see on a National Geographic special. Then someone hands you a set of goggles and…

November 3, 2010
Put Up of Shut Up

I’m 33 years old. Let’s say I live to be 100. Best case scenario I’ve completed a third of my life. The first third of my life was relatively unremarkable. Looking at the fictional “bucket list” I still have a lot of dreams, goals, and accomplishments left to complete. I have suffered through some hard…

September 14, 2009