Hey! Happy International Literacy Day! As you may know, I’ve worked in adult literacy and education for more than forty years now. It’s a career that inspires me, teaches me, and makes me think. And it causes me to appreciate…
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This week I had reason to revisit a book I read in the early 2000s – Good to Great, Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t. It’s a book that has always stayed in my mind, but I…
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I love the crisp vibrant flower of the bougainvillea. I love that it reminds me of Mexico, and of Southern California. Living in the Pacific Northwest, I thought my bougainvillea days were over until I saw some for sale at…
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Podcasts. They’re pretty new to me. In recent years they’ve fueled me, taught me, and inspired me. I generally don’t recap here what I’ve heard, but I’m inclined to share this week a thought I heard while listening to Lewis…
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What a week it’s been! Hot. Smokey. Stressful work projects. Pants that became too small. Garden flowers wilted and dying. So what? I keep hanging on. In fact, I thrive regardless of the punches the circumstances are throwing at me.…
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Today I was a 19-year-old driving my ’69 Chevy Nova in the hot Arizona sun. Without air conditioning. That’s what I felt like anyway. As the temp moved above 100 degrees here in the Lewis-Clark Valley, I was reminded of…
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