Throughout the first two years of the pandemic, I worked at home, but now I’m back on campus two days per week, which is the ongoing plan. As part of this arrangement, I agreed to give up my office at the university. Moving forward, I will have a cubicle to work in and stash books READ MORE
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Reviewing Your Week
In one of the first posts, I wrote for this blog about five and a half years ago was about the GTD method for, well, getting things done. It comes from the brain and books written by David Allen. I’m not going to go into the method overall in this post, because you can go READ MORE
A Companion For The Things We Often Do Alone
I worked from home yesterday and at lunchtime, I took our dog across the road to the dog park. Before we left I put in my earbuds and searched for a walking meditation in Ten Percent Happier (I also use Calm, neither are sponsors or pay me anything). I came across one for walking your READ MORE
Don’t Forget to Have Fun
There’s a scene in an episode during the second season of Ted Lasso where Roy is talking to Isaac about the problems Isaac has been having on the pitch since becoming the team captain. He’s taken him to a park at night where a group of young men and women are playing soccer and tells READ MORE
What Are You Working For?
Last night my daughter had her first lacrosse game (they won 16-3) so I didn’t have time to write a blog post in the evening. I’m taking just a few minutes to write this morning before leaving for work. While making my smoothie and getting my stuff together for the day, I listened to Todd READ MORE
Read Books? Consider Book Darts
I love books and I read a lot. I’ve realized that I’m reading even more since I made a conscious effort to reduce how much time I spend on social media. In addition to loving books, there is a particular book-reading accessory that I have long been a fan of. Book Darts are these handy READ MORE
I’m Ted Lasso By Nature, But …
If you’ve seen anything about the TV show Ted Lasso you know that Ted is an American college football coach who ends up coaching English Premier football (otherwise known as soccer) in the UK. Even though he’s been through some rough things in his life, he’s very much a glass-half-full kind of person. Then there’s READ MORE
Give Others The Same Consideration
One of the things that I do at the university is teaching courses to instructors on a variety of aspects of teaching. Frequently they will apologize for needing to miss a class or for not getting an assignment done one time (there are no grades, but still assignments) or for needing some extra help with READ MORE
Dial-Up, Party Lines, and Letters
The other day somebody asked my wife and me how we met, given that she’s from Saskatchewan and I’m from Southern California. A mutual friend introduced us via email (she and the mutual friend only knew each other through an online discussion group. This was more than 25 years ago. There was no Zoom or READ MORE
Answer Your Fear
I spent this past weekend mostly relaxing. I spent yesterday (actually today, because I’m writing this on Monday night) I spent the day staring at a computer screen getting some work projects done. As a result, I really don’t want to stare at a screen for much longer, plus my daughter has her first lacrosse READ MORE
