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Counting what counts

Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pexels.com “It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts,...

On finding time to be creative

This semester, I’m in a class called “Leadership for Creative Problem Solving,” with the ever-impressive Mary John O’Hair leading our group. We’ve talked a lot about what it means to be creative, specifically in the land of educational...

That $20 fiddle has taken me everywhere…

Much of my teen years and into my twenties revolved around music. I played trumpet from 6th grade onward–and wasn’t too shabby–I eventually learned a bit of piano–I can chord and keep a rhythm like nobody’s business–and a bit of...

Ideas rot

Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com Ideas rot if you don’t do something with them. I used to try to hoard them, but they rotted. Now I just blog them or tell people about them. Sometimes they still rot, but sometimes someone finds them useful in one way or another....

Everything I’m writing is s#*%

Greetings Starfighters, Happy first (partial) week of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere—our southern neighbors rejoice as they head into my favorite time of year… I’ve walked around most of this week not knowing what day it was or just being off a day. I’m quite...