It seemed significant somehow to me that I had stuck out six weeks on this dreaded diet. I couldn’t think why. I couldn’t think what was different about six weeks than five or seven. I kept trying to remember if I’d read about any mystical value to six weeks in one of my diet books [...]

I’ve been listening to Daniel Pink’s book Drive today. I “read” the Audible version of it months ago, but I wanted to read it again. I think the man knows what he’s talking about. I think anyone who is in any position to manage people needs to read it for the words of wisdom on [...]

I’ve been interested in Jeff Rice’s posts this week in which he critiques some Rutgers videos on their composition program. What strikes me most is just the sad fact that the two-year colleges in my area, not just mine but others as well, are not even in this conversation. Jeff is contributing to a national [...]

I was going to use this title on Day 40, and I forgot to see it through. Perhaps that’s fortunate. Perhaps I don’t really want to compare myself to…well, you know…the one who did the forty days in the desert thing. I didn’t have anything profound to say about it anyway. I just liked the [...]

I’ve said all along that my biggest problem with my diet was just paying attention to what I was eating and when. I’ve been so busy for so long. It wasn’t so much that I was eating more often as that I was eating less often, or at least less regularly. I was forgetting to [...]