Monthly Archives: September 2015

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September 22 , 2015 /

MORTALITY and THE GIFT OF TIME

Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, takes a good look at how we, and the medical community, deal with people in the later years of their lives. For those of us with aging parents or who ourselves are already past the midpoint, whatever that may be, there are some

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September 18 , 2015 /

BACKWARDS AND WRONG

The “Education Equation” has it wrong and change comes slowly.  A study conducted by the U. S. Department of Education in collaboration with Germany. perhaps Japan as well, concluded that we have it all wrong.  If you look at the education equation, we tend to hold time constant and make education the variable.  If we

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September 18 , 2015 /

Teaching Respect, Responsibiity and RESTRAINT

As a long-time teacher and school administrator, my three R’s were respect, responsibility and restraint.  Most people understand, even accept, the first two easily but often stumble over the third.  We used those criteria to evaluate the behavior of students and adults, and most often included teachers and parents in the conversations about our values,

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September 18 , 2015 /

WHEN DOWNSIZING IS RIGHT SIZING: WHY LESS IS MORE

  It seems that a large number of people in a generation is in serious conversations about moving to smaller living spaces, jettisoning a number of possessions and moving toward simplifying and uncluttering their lives.  At least once or twice a week I find myself answering questions about how and why we decided to do

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September 18 , 2015 /

LIFE WORKS

LIFE WORKS   Like many of you, I write down my thoughts and experiences from time to time, keep a journal on occasion around travel, maintain a blog and use social media, mostly Twitter and LinkedIn, for a variety of purposes.  I have written several books, numerous articles, and have a web site that will

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September 18 , 2015 /

Stay Tuned

STAY TUNED A few weeks ago, I returned to Greenville, Ohio, to celebrate my 60thanniversary of my graduation from high school.   I spent, yes spent, the first 18 years of my life in this small town of about 13,000 in west central Ohio, close to Indiana. It has only grown by 3,000 people in the

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