Author: David

Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week! Post an image (you or a passable proxy) that shows how you’re feeling on this fine Friday. Me? Seeing that the glass half full….

We’re getting toward the end of the week and to help us make it to the weekend, I’d like to share some reasons why you are worth whatever you are being paid (or think you…

Ah, the incandescent lightbulb. This glowing source of sudden sun remains the symbol of innovation and creativity. When someone gets something, we say the lightbulb goes on. But get this: When I asked my students…

To follow up on my comments yesterday, about Stairway to Heaven. One of the lines goes like this: “Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long runThere’s still time to…

In recognition of my dad’s birthday over the weekend, let me talk about perhaps the greatest of influences on my musical tastes: Him, and his box of cassette tapes. Back in the late 1970s, dad…

Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week! Post an image (you or a passable proxy) that shows how you’re feeling on this fine Friday. Me? Summertime and the livin’ is easy!…

We’re getting toward the end of the week and to help us make it to the weekend, I’d like to share some reasons why you are worth whatever you are being paid (or think you…

“Why did you call me ‘The King of Latrine’?” I asked of our class valedictorian, begrudgingly admiring his wordplay after he signed my yearbook. “Can’t you read?” he scoffed, “that’s ‘SATIRE,’ not ‘latrine.’” In high…

While we’re celebrating current, recent, and upcoming graduation days, for my students and all graduates everywhere, I’m reminded of a funny story. This goes back a bunch of years, shortly before I added the role…

It was my privilege to witness and participate in Dominican University graduation ceremonies yesterday. Our student speakers inspired me. Our honorary degree recipients… transcendent. Some students, walking on stage to receive their degrees, I could…