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Some weeks are more complicated than others. Some years are more complicated than others. Monday morning we had our fourth trip to the emergency room since November of last year. Many years ago, when we were in an emergency room for my dad, a nurse told us that the typical stay in an emergency room…

The first family car I remember was Sick Green Betsy. Sick Green Betsy was a ’56 Chevy and of course it had no air conditioning. Really the only thing I remember about the car was the ugly green color and the famous bulbous shape of the roofline. And I really only remember the latter because, if…

My mom worked in Personnel (now called Human Resources) for most of her career. When I was in college, she gave me a chance to participate in one of her workshops using a personality test. I have no idea which one. It’s not any of the familiar ones that we now know, but it worked…

My earliest memory is of my mother reading to me. In my memory it seems like a Golden Book, but now looking back on it, I suspect it was more of a pamphlet produced by the children’s hospital in Fort Worth. I was three and getting ready to go to the hospital overnight to have my…

Not too long ago I was in a conversation with a friend. She told me she had recently talked to a mutual friend who was retired and was glad to have an opportunity to learn a bit about his experience. Our conversation moved on to other things, but it got me thinking. It reminded me…

First a bit of prologue. I know nothing about the incident at Cornell beyond what I have read in the public sphere. Everything I share below is from my years of experience working on university campuses, particularly in the realm of student conduct. I have not written previously because it is not my intent to…

Last week in class, our professor asked us a question and several students wrote answers on the chalkboard (yes, an actual chalkboard). One student asked, “who wrote in cursive?” and two people answered, “Gage”. It wasn’t me though this immediately started a conversation about the fact that I had such beautiful handwriting. I said, “my…

How many personality tests have you taken over the course of your life or career? The first one I ever took was while I was in college. I have no idea what the name of the test was. I do know I had to ask four or five friends to fill out a 30 question…

Just a few Odds and Ends from the last couple of weeks. What I’ve been doing – I spent this weekend in Oklahoma for the annual reunion with a group of people I’ve known since we were all freshman in college. This event started about fifteen years ago. We get together on an away weekend for…

I think I was about ten when Grandmommie taught me to embroider. We went to TG&Y, to the department that was called Notions, to get me some pillowcases with a pattern stamped on the cuff. We also picked out embroidery thread, needles and an embroidery hoop. By age twelve I was working on a large project…