
There’s hundreds of reasons why you go to conferences: the speakers, the sessions, the lessons and learnings. But when you go home with a full brain, you take with you something of true lasting value: the relationships you build with those sharing that experience with you. As many previous attendees in 2007 and 2008 have …
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Hard to believe we’re in the middle of February already, isn’t it? Yep, time moves along briskly when there’s hardly any time to take a breath. With all the “busyness” in our lives, it’s not easy to find time to kick it back a few notches. And then there’s the Blackberry (or your favorite handheld device). …
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“Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something” – definition of Trust Lately I’ve been thinking about Flounder. Flounder was the hapless Delta pledge in the movie “Animal House” who let smooth-talking Otter “borrow” his brother’s new car for a night out. The car was trashed, and the next day Flounder was despondent. …
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About six weeks ago I wrote a poem dedicated to “all who I’ve come to know on this medium in my three years of blogging”, entitled “Dog Years Are Like Blog Years”. Not long after that post went up, Amy Derby and I were bantering on Twitter about how I should find someone to write music …