As we finish up the 4th of July celebrations, I have been contemplating independence. It is a great concept and a definite cause for celebration but what does it actually mean? It is true that America is independent from Great Britain but are we really independent as...
I had spent so many years bowing down to the altar of higher education (both as a student and a professor) that a few years ago this would have seemed like a radical idea, blasphemous even. Don’t be silly, I might have thought, the rational mind can find a...
Earlier this month I arrived back in my “happy place” of Sedona, AZ. I had just arrived the night before and had the whole month stretched out before me. The place I was staying in was even more gorgeous and peaceful than it looked online and was right on the creek....
I have been feeling the occasional twinge of stress around money lately. Although I am in transition, starting a new business and it is normal for me not to be bringing in as much money as I did last year when I had my steady job. My currency this year is mainly in...
I keep hearing that “why” we do things is much more important than “what” we do. I was asked to ponder this and write about it for an education conference I’ll be speaking at next week in Palm Springs. Here is what came to me. My love...
The SXSW (pronounced South by Southwest) family of conferences and festivals that is held in Austin, TX every year started with a music festival in 1987. They promote themselves as the “premier destination for discovery” and a space for intellectual and creative...
