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Exuberance

Yes, there is cuteness in my house with the ever growing Roux. But there is also exuberance. Extreme exuberance. She dashes across the floor, excited to take her next drink of water. To crunch her next bowl of kibble. To destroy her next cardboard box. Everything demands all out joy. She throws her little (notContinue reading “Exuberance”

Busyness

Everyday is busy. Just busyness. There is something, anything that will expand to fill the time that you have available. I have to go to my office each morning, fire up my computer and prepare for my morning classes. I have to make sure content that is required is available on line, that my notesContinue reading “Busyness”

And the grind sets in…

At some point it happens to each of us, the daily grind sets in. Maybe not for those that are retired or on some prolonged adventure, or maybe it does. For most of us, the day to day becomes almost robotic. I am fortunate as a college teacher, that my everyday at least has someContinue reading “And the grind sets in…”

You are a sign

I work at a great Community College. It has a long rich history of educating students, first as an extension of high school offering 13th and 14th grades, then as a School Board support college and ultimately as a Community College operating within a Community and Technical College system. Our first campus was a sharedContinue reading “You are a sign”

Adapt or be overcome

Technology. It is so engrained in our everyday we hardly even give consideration to it. My Smartphone is a more powerful computer than the first desktop I owned, which was state of the art at the time. When I was a young child, I recall waiting with my immigrant parents at our dining table forContinue reading “Adapt or be overcome”