Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well dedicated readers… the winds of change are streaming across the bow of my blogging boat. Due to some recent corporate restructuring and alignment of supporting initiatives, I will no longer have time to write my own blog posts during the events of a typical day. I want to thank all of you who have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This morning I reinstated my running program. There is a new Reebook ad that sums up this situation for me. The ad starts out stating straight up “you have this love-hate relationship with running.” True. Very True.
There I was, loping through the darkness. It felt like a scene in some old [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Last Friday I spent the day in Chicago attending the kitchen & bath show… very cool. It was the first time I attended the show so I have little to compare it to, but it seemed pretty busy.
For the most part, the highway to Chicago from our town parallels the Lake Michigan shoreline. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Although I awoke this morning to several inches of fresh snow on the ground, spring can be seen peeking around the corner if you know where to look. It is a messy time of year. Our landscape is stuck between seasons with a puzzling mix… remnants from last month and previews of next [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have just returned from a trip to San Antonio, Texas. Suspect of a growing geographic homogenization that is creeping across the country, I didn’t expect to experience much regional influence. Wrong.
This wasn’t my first trip to Texas, it but has been at least 15 years. The itinerary while there was jam [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Quite often the impetus of a blog post for me is the result of a resounding insight that either I just can’t wait to share, or one that I heard elsewhere and morphed into my own relevance. Such was the case last week when I was listening to NPR.
There was a report on recent [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A few weeks ago I sat in on a brief lecture that was focused on personal growth. The analogy being used in the presentation was so simple and yet so perfect. The speaker was comparing us as humans to a rock. Then he held up a split and polished quartz amethyst geode [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(I have been unable to get to my writing…)
Wow… the new year not only changed the page on my calendar but it presented a proverbial boat load of initiatives. I have been consumed by things like IBS (International Builders Show) and other similar efforts and been unable to spend any time writing. But… I’m swimming [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I set up a temporary office in our living room while we do some work in our house. Our living room is what I call our “qualitative space” in that there is no TV. It is a space denoted for sitting by the fire, reading a book, drinking a glass of merlot… listening to, or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I found this poem by Christina Rossetti in a micro book my mother-in-law gave our kids. The book is titled “A Treasury Of Children’s Poetry”, published by Running Press.
(click on the pages to enlarge)
To be honest, I’m not big on poetry but what struck me about this poem was how simple and accurately it [...]
