I recently watched a TED talks video, Amy Cuddy’s “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are.” As a teacher, I understand the dynamics of body language. I read my students’ body language all the time and modify my approach to match or alter their attitudes so the class runs smoothly and achieves my intended goals…
Would you want your ashes heading into space? Who decides? The New Horizon spacecraft is carrying Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes. He is the astronomer who discovered Pluto. Reading this fact in an article, made me stop and think a bit about who decides what is added as extra payload for such a scientific endeavor and how…
I’d like to talk about retirement. I’d like to retire too, but since that’s not coming anytime soon (unless my books start really rolling off the digital shelves–feel welcome to participate in precipitating my early retirement), I’ll just talk about it. First, you must consider as early as possible that you will retire one day…
Two sides to writing. It is Wednesday evening and for two days running I have not been writing on my #wip. Arggg! I even am a bit late on my blog. Not good. So what is the status on Book 4 of Students of Jump you ask. Well, so far it is the longest book…
A few days ago, I went to a band camp concert. My daughter was one of the players. As I sat there listening to the rising and falling notes, flutes coming in as clarinets drop away, background drums rolling in crescendo and tubas filling the brief spaces in between, my heart racing and relaxing with…
Dancing with the daffodils I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the…
We’ve been dealing with repeated rainstorms lately, several weeks’ worth, actually. Water is gathering on our sidewalk and pooling there for days because the ground is so saturated. But the last two days have been dry and warm, so off to the lake we went to waterski. The lake we usually go to was over…
I have had several rules over the years that have served me very well. One rule is that if I have a goal, I should never stop pursuing it. No excuses. This rule has a kissing cousin that follows the same determination just replace “goal” with “habit.” It is my belief that once you turn…
