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Like most people I have a toaster of some kind. Mine is a toaster oven; I think we have a real toaster as well, but if so I haven’t seen it in years. Whenever I want toast, I put it on a certain setting so that it’ll end up being just the way I like [...]
Sometimes the lessons leaders need to learn come from comedy. In this case I’m reminded of a skit that was on Saturday Night Live in the 80′s. In this particular skit, the priest went to see the mother superior because he’d been troubled by the behavior of some of the nuns recently. What he realized [...]
I often hear about this or that entertainer who has suddenly begun to wonder whether what they do is any good and then drops out and we never hear from them again, or it’s a very long time before they resurface. This often happens with musicians who find that they weren’t prepared for either the [...]
When I was still a daily employee in my director’s role, I joined the local chapter of a national organization for my profession, which was patient account directors across the country. Locally, there were 8 meetings a year in Syracuse and one big 2-day conference in Alexandria Bay at the time. I wish I could [...]
This morning we awoke to temperatures in the minus teens in the Syracuse area. It’s not necessarily uncommon for our temperatures to get that cold, but it’s rare. Last night on Twitter I was discussing the issue with a few people and it got around to the question of whether or not school would be [...]
“As miserable as I felt in those days I knew something was changing in me. I’ve heard people call it a survival instinct and I think that’s exactly what it was. I had two very clear choices; get on with living or die. I chose to live.” Traci Lords, Underneath It All By now everyone [...]
There are many cartoons that have human characters interacting with animals. This goes way back to the beginning of animation. Anyone who loves cartoons remembers those old Fleischer cartoons where not only animals talked but inanimate objects talked as well. There’s always an interesting way these humans interact with these characters. Sometimes there’s the initial [...]
