Monthly Archives: February 2011

Getting the record. Write.

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

One dear lady with whom I am acquainted has been telling me how much she wants to write and get her ideas out to the public. However, she is a little older than the sum of a few college students … Continue reading →

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Sounds like…

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

I collected a set of expressions I heard over the weekend–and I did not watch the Oscars ceremony–and share them in a moment of Monday morning whimsy: “Sir says the service is all on the surface.” “Please try to stay dry” … Continue reading →

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What makes it tick?

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

As I mentioned earlier this week when I wrote ‘Making connections’, I would get back to some of the conversation topics that struck me from being with a group of traders the past weekend. It is perhaps fitting to try … Continue reading →

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Picture this

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

If a picture says a thousand words, then I wish that I could draw one to describe some of the odd things that happened to public officials recently, rather than trying to write about them. But, I am no artist, … Continue reading →

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Making connections

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Whatever we do for work, the question arises “Why am I doing this?” The question looms large if one works within an institution, and career development has to be considered along with work content. However, if you work outside an … Continue reading →

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Water, anyone?

Posted on February 18, 2011 by

When I first noticed several weeks ago that water was coursing through a channel next to my house, my first concern was that we had had a dry spell and I could not figure out what might be the source. … Continue reading →

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Letters not get confused

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

When we string words together, we hope they make as much sense to everyone else as they do to us. They often do not, for various reasons. I had a conversation the other day about the murkiness of acronyms: to … Continue reading →

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Fair or fair game?

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

An animated discussion amongst a group of adults after church left me wondering whether the comfort we feel by accepting people whom others find unacceptable is only of little comfort to the unaccepted. People who are trying not to be … Continue reading →

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Just to be close to you

Posted on February 12, 2011 by

The popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt over the past month have made clear that we can all feel close to events far away. Technology has allowed us to almost be in the midst of any event where someone has … Continue reading →

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If it’s digital is it real?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

I often wonder if we are going through a strange psychological shift with new technologies. In particular, I wonder if people are somehow lulling themselves into a belief that the digital world is not real or somehow divorced from the … Continue reading →

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