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