Do you ever wonder what military men and women do in their spare time?
Twenty years ago I knew that answer because I was serving in the US Air Force. While in Germany I watched television, read books, hung out with friends and traveled. While in Georgia I watched television, read books, and hung out […]
I think it’s amazing when someone I’ve lot contact with suddenly pops back in to my life. That happened this week when a man (a writer) I met at Toastmasters many years ago sent me an e-mail.
He wanted to know if he’d been dropped from my newsletter subscriber list because he hadn’t received any A […]
The following article from USA Today’s web site:
BEIJING (AP) — A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal’s back, state media said Wednesday.
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What was he thinking? Okay, he drank four “jugs” […]
Okay, sometimes those pesky e-mails that people forward to everyone in their address book contain something fun.
This morning my friend Kat from Wisconsin shared that the #1 song in the US on her birthday was Witch Doctor by David Seville (of Alvin and the Chipmunks fame). Since we share the same birthday I was […]
The other night someone asked me how I managed to get all the things done that I do. Because I know how much more I want to get done and could get done, it usually surprises me when someone thinks I’ve done a lot.
My pithy response to this person was: “I don’t know. I […]
Many people love and live by their “to do” lists. I happen to be one of them. But the truth of the matter is, that oftentimes I don’t do what’s on my list, I do other things and then add them to my list so that I can cross them off with a mightly stroke […]
During a presentation I gave yesterday morning, I shared the story of a luau-based celebration that took place where I work. The food was amazing and they had some luau inspired games for employees to participate in. One of the games was the limbo.
Typically I don’t participate in such activities. It’s not that I don’t […]
WOOT! I completed another 2006 goal today. Yeah!
Curious as to what it was? It was riding the city bus.
Really. It was a written goal… and… really I did it today.
I gave a presentation at the Unemployed Professionals Group in Portland. My daughter dropped me off on her way to school and I told […]
