After more than a few years in the news business, I have learned a great many things. One of the most important lessons is this: treasure those kind souls that God puts in your path to help you along the way. In July of 1990, I was hired for my first broadcasting job in radioContinue reading “Middays With Rose”
Tag Archives: And So It Goes
Remembering One Of The Giants
“I haven’t spent time in Coach’s classroom since end of semester May of 1983, but he is still taking me to school.”
12.13.21 – The Duchess & The Dump Truck
“When I get asked by younger kids about what it’s like to be a parent, I usually explain more about the highest highs, the joys that your kids bring, their accomplishments and their dreams for the future.
I also sometimes include days like this one…”
Farewell to Big Chili & Hot Pickles
Proof positive that you should enjoy and cherish the little things in life, because you don’t know when they might not be around in the future. Memphis has its neighborhood BBQ joints. Topeka’s place was a combo neighborhood grocery store and restaurant. Blink and you would have missed it. Squint a bit from a distanceContinue reading “Farewell to Big Chili & Hot Pickles”
Chess and the Zen of School Rooms
When everyone else zigs, zag… I was six when my dad introduced me to chess. When I was a substitute teacher for Bartlett City Schools, if the students behaved and if their work for the day was complete, I would use my computer to show the multiple live chess games from LIChess.org on the classroomContinue reading “Chess and the Zen of School Rooms”
Punching The Encyclopedia
As featured on LinkedIn: I was in 6th grade when the Iranian Hostage Crisis unfolded. It didn’t take much to notice from our adults that tensions were high. (Didn’t help to be stuck in the middle of the Cold War as well, but that’s another post for another time.) Coming back into the classroom, post-lunch/recessContinue reading “Punching The Encyclopedia”
#AndSoItGoes: THE POWER OF POSITIVE COMMENTING
In the first season of @HartHanson’s amazing TV series #Bones, artist-in-residence Angela Montenegro experiences a crisis of confidence in the episode “The Woman In The Tunnel” in that, once a free-spirited artist, she now spent her days electronically reconstructing shattered faces and mangled bodies. Her boss, Dr. Daniel Goodman, reminds her that if it wasn’t forContinue reading “#AndSoItGoes: THE POWER OF POSITIVE COMMENTING”
“RUMOR CONTROL, CAN I HELP YOU?”
“The best way to combat fear and dissipate confusion is with knowledge and information. “
Meteorologist Austen Onek 