When I retire
Now this is a subject I have not considered. And yet 2 friends are retiring this month and 2 others are going part time in anticipation of retirement soon. Is retirement a biblical concept? I don’t think so, but I don’t think that makes it wrong unless when you retire you actually retreat from the…
Push reset and celebrate irrelevancy
My Current Rant: When I hear leaders who are barely out of college and with very limited experience, who are in a training position, comment that people in their mid to late twenties are too old to relate to students I feel even more marginalized than I am and how arrogant you are. When I…
For Want of a Nail
There is a nursery rhyme that has a great message about the importance of details and ripple effects. For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For…
Floods and Puddles
My mind flooded with thoughts of a woman I never met. Today would have been Jim’s moms 91st birthday. How do I know that?! Why can’t I let some of those little dates go? Her only brother will be buried next week and I wonder if I should go and take some sand from Barbados.…
Silence
The decade syndrome. Jim used to joke that he did everything by decades: 10.5 years on staff in Downey. 10 years in Scottsdale. 10 in Illinois at Trinity. Then when we moved back to CA and he got sick and died after 4.5 years so I thought that the syndrome only applied to him! Yet…
Ground Hog Day! Candlemas Day!
The prestigious prognosticator, Punxatawny Phil, saw his shadow today, which means we have 6 more weeks of Winter! Even though I am certain that the weather and the seasons (especially in the calendarically challenged state of California) have nothing to do with a rodent and his shadow, I am so glad that this winter has…
Vin Scully Day
Last night I watched the celebration of the 67 year career of Vin Scully. Amazing! He definitely is the voice in my head when I am at a ball game; he could make the great word pictures and where ever I was I was instantly transported to the ballpark as I listened to Vin call…
National Days
Today is one of my Favorites – National S’mores Day! Once, when we were on a camping trip with students, someone forgot to bring the graham crackers and all we had for the s’mores was double stuff Oreos. That was the beginning of a creative love affair with that snack! I don’t remember when I…
Recent Riddle
Heard this riddle recently: You are riding a horse, galloping at a constant speed and to your right is a giraffe, traveling at the same speed you are. Directly in front of you is a loping kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it. Behind you is a lion chasing all of you. What…
Snap
Every once in awhile a word will fascinate me. The word snap is that word as of late. One little word with so many meanings and uses. I was at Hume Lake last week and I had just snapped one of the kids’ pants as we were getting ready in the morning. The word seemed…