Are students cheating? This inquiry is only one of many conundrums being discussed between two educators on morning walks. Sometimes the conversation steers itself to deeper issues: How do we handle our own aging selves much less the dynamics of aging parents? But at the beginning of an academic year, as we listen to presentations …
Category: Emerging Generations
The Great Rewiring
Take a morning walk with me along the out-and-back paved trail near my home and, on a typical day, you will witness a demonstration of what social psychologist Jonathan Haidt names The Great Rewiring. You are aware of this phenomenon, as you see it playing out every day, when you encounter the different generations represented …
Die of Curiosity
Although it happens to everyone, without exception, most people avoid the subject of death. Our culture, as Louise Aronson shares in her book Elderhood, prefers to remove itself from the uncomfortable topic that all life does come to an end. “It’s a rare family in which at least one person doesn’t know how to care …
Cows Don’t Give Milk
Two years ago, while browsing social media, the phrase Cows Don’t Give Milk seized my attention, and I wish I knew who to credit for the original posting; however, the note in my phone listed the author as unknown. Fast forward to the present-day rumination on this story and I discover there is an actual …
Junk Drawer
What is the state of your Junk Drawer? You know you have one! You may call it something else, but you have that space somewhere. Heather Creekmore asks, “Where do you put that random screw that must go to something but needs a home until you identify where? Random lids, twist ties, and pens, lots …
Asking Over Assuming
Recently, I was the beneficiary of several intriguing insights while engaging in a Walk and Talk with Makayla, one of which relates to how we both delight when an author uses a phrase that captures a concept we’ve been mulling over, especially when we have been struggling to articulate it in a specific way. Even …
Stick With It
Understanding that self-reflection, for some, is not considered an enjoyable or worthwhile activity, I hope you will indulge me today. Perhaps this question will not be too challenging as you consider your life up to this point: Is there an activity you’ve faithfully engaged in, something that now you are grateful you were able to …
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Control-Alt-Delete might be a meaningless and random piecing together of computer keys for the younger generations accustomed to typing on a screen rather than a keyboard, but for those of us Gen Xers, CTRL+ALT+DEL was a desperate measure to reboot our computers. This “soft reboot” was designed by an IBM engineer as an internal way …
TL;DR
What does that mean?!? I seem to be asking this question more and more often these days. Perhaps this is connected to the fact that I seem to keep adding years to my chronological age, which means I’m becoming disconnected from the jargon and lingo younger generations are using. Regardless of the why I must …
Unrealistic Expectations
Imagine scanning social media one morning and coming across the headline Jones Steps Down as Sports Information Director. Not necessarily an attention-grabber for most readers, but this press release was being shared by respected colleagues in the field of what is currently known as athletic communications, mostly in efforts to draw attention to the Unrealistic …
Flourishing @ Life 