SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act.* I don’t know enough about it, yet. I do know that bloggers are one population that could be seriously impacted. You may have noticed yesterday that many tech websites were either blacked out or carried links to information about SOPA. The photo above is what wordpress.com (hosts this blog) looked [...]
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Thank you Thursday
January 19, 2012Categories: Current Events, Politics, Technology, Thank-You Thursday
Tags: Business, Communication, Culture, Politics, Social Media
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Thank you Thursday
July 28, 2011My definition of leadership starts with the heart. Why? Because the heart is the core of people, and leadership is about people. Caring about them, influencing them, inspiring them, serving them. Even discipline starts with the heart. When done well, discipline and counsel is because one person cares about the other person and his success. Today, I am thankful [...]
Categories: Leadership, Living Fully Present, Thank-You Thursday
Tags: Community, Compassion, Culture, Gratitude, Happiness, Integrity, Leadership, Positivity, Social Media
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Sunday Service: #WhyWeCelebrate
July 3, 2011This week’s Sunday Service post is a little different. No donations. No fundraising. No worthy organization needing your financial support. Instead, to honor and celebrate Independence Day, I invite you to share your story about what this holiday means to you. And, as much as I would love comments here, instead, email your thoughts to whywecelebrate@gmail.com. My daughter, [...]
Categories: Current Events, Living Fully Present, Random, Service, Sunday Service
Tags: Attitude, Community, Family, Holidays, Peace, Politics, Social Media
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Will you join #TeamMeg?
June 13, 2011Perspective is an interesting dynamic. Suddenly, my kidney stones don’t seem like such a big problem… My daughter, Heather, emailed me on Saturday, asking if I could help spread the efforts of #TeamMeg. It turns out that “Meg” is a friend of @ValerieSimon, a friend of Heather’s. Megan is going through a very difficult time and could [...]
Categories: Health, Living Fully Present
Tags: Compassion, Family, Health, Possibilities, Social Media
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Sunday Service – The Blue Key Campaign
June 12, 2011Consider these numbers: 43.3 million forcibly displaced people worldwide 26 million refugees and internally displaced people receive help from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) 17 million refugee and internally displaced children under the age of 18 6,000+ UNHCR staff open doors daily for these refugees in 128 countries You can help. The Blue Key [...]
Categories: Current Events, Service, Sunday Service
Tags: Charity, Compassion, Culture, Giving, Politics, Social Media
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Read any good books, lately?
March 12, 2011Recently, I’ve been fortunate enough to be contacted by several publishers with offers of free books in exchange for posting book reviews. A couple things are great about this. First, I get free books to add to my library. If you’ve followed any of my posts, you know I love books and love to share them [...]
Categories: Books, Entertainment, Random
Tags: Books, Entertainment, Positivity, Social Media
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Tuesday Tidbit
March 8, 2011(At our office, we have a six month leadership development journey called COMPASS. It’s all about discovering the leader within you and then leading from wherever you are. Fifteen people begin COMPASS this week.) …As you have an opportunity today, please wish the COMPASS 2011 class good luck as they embark on this journey of self-discovery [...]
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Tags: Attitude, Books, Business, Fully Present, Leadership, Social Media
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Sunday Service – Adopt-A-Classroom
March 6, 2011I am lucky to have numerous outstanding young people in my life. Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about two non-profit organizations that friends of my daughter are involved in (Enzian Theater and Ronald McDonald House). Last week, I wrote about my daughter’s trip in support of Heart of Haiti. Today’s Sunday Service is inspired [...]
Categories: Sunday Service
Tags: Charity, Community, Education, Social Media
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Sunday Service – Heart of Haiti (and Heather)
February 27, 2011I hope you’ll indulge me – this post is not the usual Sunday Service post about a non-profit, but it is about an organization worth supporting, none-the-less. This is also about the experience of a lifetime my daughter is having this weekend. The Heart of Haiti is an initiative to provide a retail outlet for Haitian artisans to [...]
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Tags: Charity, Community, Compassion, Culture, Family, Giving, Health, Social Media
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Thank you Thursday
February 24, 2011My cousins and my aunt, (who is also my godmother) live in Germany. I had not heard any news about our German relatives since my Dad died in 2004…until I connected with one of my cousins last year on Facebook. Jutta and I have been able to share vacation photos and occasional family updates. This past [...]
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