Opening Day of the 2025 baseball season is upon us. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I never get back! But we do have to come back; and when we do, there’s a lot of work to be done in public education. Put me in coach. I’m ready to play today!
Category Archives: Life
The Fair, Reliable, & Valid Sex
In the midst of all of the current chaos and disrupted careers, I thought this a good time to step back and reflect on the question that LinkedIn has been posing at the top of my feed in honor of International Women’s Day and National Women’s History Month: Who are the women who have influenced your career?
To Every Thing There Is A Season
This week gave birth to another season of professional football. It’s the 105th season for the National Football League, the second in the league’s Taylor Swift Era, and my first without my Uncle Sal who passed away in June. I cannot think about football without thinking of him.
Writing To The Rubric: Gymnastics Edition
Order has been restored to women’s gymnastics. Team USA and Simone Biles have their gold medals. But as I watched the events unfold in Paris this week, I couldn’t help but feel that something important was missing.
Artificial Intelligence: It’s Only Human
We’ve been dealing with artificial intelligence our entire lives – but in human form. Is it really all that different this time around? Computers may complicate the issue a bit, but in the words of Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
A Long Time Coming
Too bad I used “Party In The USA” as the title of my last post, because we are certainly partying in our part of the USA. The Boston Celtics are back on top of the basketball world – where they lived comfortably for the first three decades of my life.
It Hit Different This Time
It’s never been easy to say goodbye to a friend. But the experience was different this time.
Livin’ On A Prayer
Don’t talk about religion they say. But the commencement kicker and 60 Minutes with Pope Francis propelled Catholics back to the top of the news cycle for a few days. For good reason, that hasn’t been a comfortable place for us.
A Shift in My Perspective on Vertical Scales
I’m not sure whether wisdom comes with age, but I was barely 65 for twelve hours when I had an epiphany that forever changed the way that I will view vertical scales.
Top Of The World
My big employment decision came at 60. Social security is deferred ’til 68. I used a senior discount to see the Eras Tour film. I expected turning 65 to be anticlimactic. I was wrong.
Embrace the Absurd 