My great friend Melinda Miller and I started a collaborative photography project called Every Week back in February. We each shoot one photo every week and post them side-by-side every Sunday. Starting a project like this is risky, because there are so many times when inspiration doesn’t come right on time, or life intervenes and [...]
Dear friends and family, Laura and I invite you to join us in the 5K Race for Research on August 24 in Washington Park in Denver.
All proceeds from the race will be donated to the Cancer League of Colorado. Donated funds will be designated specifically for brain cancer research.
Laura’s dad died from brain cancer in [...]
This is part four in a six-part series on my StrengthsFinder 2.0 results. In part one, I introduced the whole strengths and talents idea from Tom Rath’s book. He asserts that we develop strengths by investing study and practice into areas where we are already naturally talented. The book and online assessment help you identify [...]
Follow threads. There are more connections than you think.
I know it’s ancient history to many of you, but it was news to me when I learned that the surviving members of Joy Division had formed New Order after Ian Curtis died. It went something like this: I liked “Love Will Tear Us Apart” but didn’t [...]
My grandmother died recently, almost two weeks after suffering a stroke. She’d lived her entire life in Kansas. My sister and her family live near where my grandmother died, a few miles away in another town. All the children, grandchildren, great- and great-great-grandchildren were going to converge on the spot for the funeral. Grandma wanted [...]
I found the Song Chart group on Flickr by accident the other day. What you do is pick a song, create a chart or graph that illustrates the song, and post it to the Flickr group. The cheesier you can make the chart, the drier the humor, the more ridiculous the graphic effects, the [...]
3. “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” - because when we were kids he changed the title to something rude that made me laugh
2. “Bennie and the Jets” - because he can whistle like the whistle in the second half of the song, and I never could
and…
1. “Daniel” - because Daniel, my brother, you are older [...]
I am challenging my assumptions. I challenge everyone else’s, why not my own?
Because nothing stays the same. Definitely not the web. Why would you think it wouldn’t change?