December 2005

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• 12.31.05
  A Swan-Song For 2005   Uncategorized (0)

  I woke this morning in a terrible panic. We’ve reached the end of the calendar year 2005, and I haven’t got a single memory of personal greatness that leaps out at me, screaming “This! I did this!”
  My kids alternated between being dinosaurs and bickering in the living room as I curled my hands around a [...]

• 12.31.05
  Crawling Out of Lurk to Wish You   Uncategorized (1)

  I’ve been enjoying the random nature of 100 Bloggers, love watching the patterns form from post to post, and mostly enjoying the writing. I hope to be a regular contributor in the coming year.
  I signed up because there was something I liked about being a part of something whose meaning was left loose. Like [...]

• 12.31.05
  Tiny Toys   Uncategorized (1)

  Just a bit of fantasy writing based on a dream…
  I can’t help thinking what an adorable house, as I walk into our new home. Moving boxes everywhere, I think about the charm of this new home. I open a small built-in closet, admiring the long-time ago workmanship and detail.
  Thinking to myself, this is a house [...]

• 12.30.05
  What is a Hillbilly?   Uncategorized (4)

  Most people view a Hillbilly as an uneducated, uncultured, lazy, no account loafer. In fact, the very term Hillbilly is often used as a derogatory statement or is used as a put down. When it is used in friendly terms it is used in jest, to make fun of someone. The term Hillbilly certainly conjures [...]

• 12.30.05
  Carnival of 100 Bloggers, Issue 2   Uncategorized (0)

  Welcome to Issue 2 of the Carnival of 100 Bloggers featuring Rosa Say, Trevor Gay, Ken Camp, Rebecca Thomas, Kirsten Johnson, Dwayne Melancon, Average Jane and Troy Worman.
  As always, the new year brings with it the anticipation of limitless possibilities, but first, Kirsten Johnson reminds us to take time to celebrate the successes of 2005 [...]

• 12.27.05
  Weeping through a children’s movie   Uncategorized (1)

  It doesn’t seem real that I just returned home from seeing Cheaper By the Dozen 2 with my eight-year-old daughter after sobbing through half of the movie. That’s because: 1) It’s a kid’s movie. 2.) It’s a comedy. 3) Steve Martin’s in the lead role. 
  And I’m crying like a baby in the front row of [...]

• 12.24.05
  ‘Twas the blog before Christmas   Uncategorized (0)

  ‘Twas the blog before Christmas, when all through the house
  No blogger was stirring, no hand moved the mouse.
  The postings were stacked by the tag cloud with care,
  In hopes that more readers soon would be there;
  The users were nestled all snug in their beds,
  While visions of updates danced in their heads;
  And me [...]

• 12.22.05
  Do you ever do something because you can’t think of a good reason not to?   Uncategorized (4)

  Here I am, Blogger # who-knows-what on this 100 bloggers project.
  Do I have a good reason to be here? Not really. I have nine other blogs I could be blogging on right this very minute. Seriously. But Troy invited me along for this undefined ride, and I noticed no one had yet posted today, and [...]

• 12.21.05
  Holidays and Loss   Uncategorized (2)

  “Our grief always brings a gift. It’s the gift of greater sensitivity and compassion for others. We learn to rise above our own grief by reaching out and lessening the grief of others“.
  -author unknown
  For those who are grieving the holidays can be a especially difficult time.
  And all to often , grieving people are isolated because [...]

• 12.18.05
  Carnival of 100 Bloggers, Issue 1   Uncategorized (4)

  Welcome to Issue 1 of the Carnival of 100 Bloggers featuring Rosa Say, Trevor Gay, Pet Campbell, Ken Camp, Rebecca Thomas and Troy Worman.
  Virtue is not a word we hear very often, but what better time to reacquaint ourselves with it? Read Rosa Say’s Aloha Virtue List.
  Trevor Gay has a passion to increase awareness and [...]

• 12.16.05
  Review: Good to Great and the Social Sectors   Uncategorized (1)

  Almost two years ago, someone strongly advised my wife, Imbi and I to read Good to Great to better understand this person’s leadership style. We were very impressed with the book and subsequently read Jim Collins earlier book, Built to Last. (Which is the order that Collins now recommends they be read.) There was much [...]

• 12.15.05
  The “I Want Now” Generation?   Uncategorized (1)

  Also Posted at Let’s Get Going!!! Blog
  In this week’s Carnival of the Vanities , Retire at 30 posted a very controversial piece about entitlement, work, delayed gratification, and today’s young adults.

  “Everybody would like $1 Million tomorrow, but how many people look at the world around them and ask what problems they could fix to create [...]

• 12.14.05
  Man Down!   Uncategorized (0)

  (Originally posted on my blog on 12-13.)
  There’s something that happened last Thursday, but I’ve been too busy posting other stuff to mention it.
  Besides, I was hoping to see how it would all shake out before talking about it.
  Well, today was Shake Day.
  See, last Thursday was when we had our mini-ice-storm, so most of us went [...]

• 12.12.05
  Random Question; Why doesn’t Seth Godin allow comments on his blog?   Blogging, Uncategorized (4)

  It’s not a big deal, but I’ve been bugged the last few weeks by the inability to comment on Seth Godin’s blog. Seth is a very smart marketer and a keen observer of Web 2.0’s participatory ethos. So I’m confused by his decision to not permit comments. Perhaps someone out there can explain it to [...]

• 12.08.05
  Random Laughter   Uncategorized (5)

  I was listening in, yes shamelessly easedropping, actually at a meeting during a break.Two women were talking about their terrible shopping experiences.Playing one up man ship on each other about the worst experience..
  I sort of let my gaze drift over them as I listened and started to giggle. Then you know how this happens I [...]

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