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 […]
I go to one of the local health clubs that’s relatively close to where I live. I’ve been going since May, which really shocks everyone who knows me because they didn’t see it as being my style. What most of them didn’t know is that I actually belonged to a health club before, from 1988 […]
Over the past week ESPN has been running a series of stories, both video and written, based on one of the passages of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech from August 1963. This is their way of celebrating his birthday, for which today is the official holiday, while looking at minorities in […]
A couple of night ago there was a guy who came to the house to inspect a window we’d had installed at the end of the year, supposedly just to make sure it was installed properly. I had some minor issues with how everything was turning out. They might have just been my issues; after […]

