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And suddenly we’re in February. I saw many folks on social media this month bemoaning the length of January, but I’ve always thought of February as the longest month. I don’t really know why, maybe because having grown up in the southern tier so I’m ready for spring by mid-February. Regardless, the year is well…

According to Wikipedia, ABC’s Wide World of Sports was an “sports anthology program” that ran from 1961 to 1998. I’ve written before about watching it regularly over the years, even watching the professional bowling that was on television first. It was known for the “thrill of victory” and the “agony of defeat”, but what I…

One of the best ways to understand an organization is to learn its history. As Peter Senge puts it, “Today’s problems are the result of yesterday’s solutions.” That seems to me a straightforward way to remind us that an organization didn’t simply appear when we joined it. It has a full history of good ideas…

So, as promised last week, here’s my list of goals for the coming year. It’s a bit overwhelming when I look at it all written out like this. However, as I also said last week this is like a strategic plan in that it doesn’t all have to be done this month or even in…

Based on many of my newsletters, it’s time for New Year’s Resolutions! And I’m going to follow the herd and write about them too. I’d like to come at it from a slightly different perspective though and suggest the reason most people think resolutions are useless, and those who still try to make changes at…

We did it. We moved me out of my apartment in Oklahoma City and back to our home in San Marcos. Of course, thanks to my Galloway genes (that’s my mom’s side of the family) nothing is ever simple and straightforward about such things. I used to wonder about my uncle who seemed to make…

Oh, the challenges of the information age. I do read news from a much wider variety of sources than I used to when I read an actual newspaper. And, thanks to my “strengths” as defined by Clifton, of Learner, Input, I can find myself following a trail of information through Twitter/X or Threads or any…

In 1997, I went to work as Associate Vice President and Dean of Students at SMU. The Vice President was Jim Caswell. I had seen Jim at my first TACUSPA about fifteen years before that and he had become a friend and mentor over the years. I had worked in my new position for about…

This past week was a difficult week for a variety of reasons that don’t matter here because just like this week’s quote, the week passed and this weekend was delightful. A friend from college came into town this weekend. We’ve been in touch again for a few years now, but we don’t get to see each…

Because I’m not silly enough, and there’s not enough going on in the month of November, I decided I would give NANOWRIMO a try again this year. For those who don’t know that particular acronym, it stands for National Novel Writing Month and the idea is to draft the first 50,000 words of a novel…