Why Making Mistakes is Good for Your Leadership
We all start somewhere. We evolve. One. Step. At. A. Time. And, like a baby learning to walk, we fall down, get up, try again. Without failure there is nothing to learn from, no improvement. Eventually the baby walks. The same thing awaits us as we evolve into Leaders. It certainly has been true. From [...]
Reichenbach Falls: Starvation boots Erik off Survivor: Caramoan
Well, I guess he wasn’t kidding when he said he was starving. After overcoming a load of self-doubt last week, Erik Reichenbach exited Survivor: Caramoan within the first 10 minutes of the final episode, attached to a bag of intravenous fluids in the back of a medical van. Diagnosis: starvation state and dehydration. The show [...]
A memory from a Mother’s Day long ago
For Mother’s Day weekend, I thought I would give my readers a break from my normal education advocacy writings and share a story from my childhood as a tribute to my Mother. As a young boy growing up in Tennessee, it was a tradition at our church to wear roses on Mother’s day. We had [...]
Book Biz: Page Design, Captain Underpants, Amelia Bedelia
I’ve collected books for a long time. I think I was a collector before I knew I was a collector. One day you just wake up and realize you have a few hundred books packed into your one bedroom apartment. I’m not a “serious” collector, though. I don’t dream about ribbed leather spines or [...]
Erik’s ‘beautiful prison’ stay continues on ‘Survivor’
Day 35 was Erik Reichenbach’s turn for a meltdown on Survivor: Caramoan. At least he doesn’t have one every day – my God, Dawn should be dehydrated to the max by now. I can’t wait for someone to vote for her in tribal council, and when they do one of those whispered here’s-the-reason scenes, it’s [...]
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Rhubarb
But I do. It’s beautiful. At least he knows what it is now. Unlike last year, when I…uh…kinda stole rhubarb for strawberry rhubarb custard pie, this year I asked if I could have some. Rather urgently too, as I watched his sister waving a weed-whacker around the yard, clearly in that dangerous phase of a yard [...]
Michigan Covered Bridge Tour
Covered bridges, for many people, are curiosities of a past era. For those old enough, they represent nostalgia from their youth. Others, see them merely as antiquated historic artifacts. One thing is for sure, many people are not aware of these treasures in their own backyard.
Changing of the Guard in U.S. Senate for Michigan — Gary Peters Steps Up to Replace Levin
Michigan’s representation in the U.S. Senate is in for a big change in 2014. That’s when U.S. Sen. Carl Levin steps down after representing our state for six terms. The U.S. Senate is an exclusive club – only 100 members – and Carl Levin year after year has been considered one of the best of [...]
