The Hellish Handbasket

The reward for being willing to work for nothing (also known as service or volunteering ) is the opportunity to do more work for nothing. Fe...

As an artist and marketer, I have a foot in both art and business. Sometimes I feel like the anti-Christ of marketing, but still, with a Ph....

Last night I took a night off from daughter duty to attend an in-service (teacher training) at the local community college for which I occas...

I spent almost ten years teaching business and general education courses to reluctant, resistant, and recalcitrant adult learners, many of w...

My forward momentum plunged into a tailspin with the coming of fall and cool weather. Even though this afternoon the rain clouds scattered, ...

I'm back in editing hell, editing other people's crappy papers instead of my own. I should be grateful. I am getting paid for my eff...

When I am sitting like a blob at networking functions, or ripping along the freeway cursing out slow drivers, or picking cat hair out of my ...

Last night I gave my first official presentation to a small crowd of Meetup junkies. We met in a back room at a Chinese restaurant, where in...

I often get spam email in my Outlook inbox. I've set up rules that filter out anything with the words pfizer , viagra , penis enlargemen...

Yesterday I left the Love Shack at 4:00 p.m., intending to catch a bus to downtown Portland. Of course, as usual, I failed to check the bus ...

I'm pleased with myself tonight. If I weren't so tired, I'd be typing this dancing. Well, maybe not dancing, but shuffling. Why ...

Yesterday I had a job interview in Tigard, which is a... I guess you would call it a suburb of Portland, although you can't tell where o...

I'm discontented. I just found out about the Bright Score . Do you know about this? You probably do. As usual, I'm the last to catch...

Signing up faculty to interview for my doctoral study is worse than herding cats! Worse than wrangling medical students to do timings in key...

My hero of the week is the guy who expressed his irritation with four of his neighbors by driving a bulldozer through their houses. Rock on...

Yesterday I arrived at work at the career college and found the faculty office in an uproar. Apparently some students, upset about the termi...

In two weeks I will be unemployed. I have mixed feelings about it. When I imagine not having to use obsolete technology to teach keyboarding...