Archive for December 2013

I’m not sure I am. All of this “leaping” business looks kinda dangerous. I might pull a muscle or something. If anyone could be unlucky enough to fall into the wide chasm between 2013 and 2014, it’d be me. But before getting rescued by the Fire Department, I’d use the time for even more, much-needed…

Lots of people will carry some extra weight this holiday. And I’m not talking about calories – unfortunately. Wish I was. I’m talking about the burden of the extra stress and tension that many people will assume as  their family members from near and far gather together to “celebrate.” I never really thought about this much…

The gift of patience would be nice to receive. Just not this holiday season. Last week I highlighted five books I’m hoping to find in my Christmas stocking, and dang it, if I couldn’t go three days without breaking down and buying the Gary Vaynerchuk book for myself. I then wrapped it and made a…

Not every social media project involves hours of planning. Some just happen… and you have to be lucky enough to snag ’em when they pop up. This was definitely the case when my superintendent (Brian Davis, Holland MI) invited four of our kindergartners two weeks ago to decorate a Christmas tree in our Admin Building.…

More than 28 million people have now seen it. Just a little more than seven million had viewed it when I included it in the Encourager on December 12. Amazing. I’m extremely grateful Michelle Ready of the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District (MI) and Spring Lake Superintendent Dennis Furton drew my attention to it. Until…

Can you shop ’til you drop? I can’t. Even when Cindy has updated our gift list and has our shopping “action plan” spelled out like a NASA engineer, I’m drooping after about 35 minutes. Malls depress me. Amidst all of the youth-oriented fashions and fads, it’s difficult not to feel my age. Going up and down…