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Summer Reading Surprise
A STACK OF BOOKS, both print and digital, has been piling up on my “summer reading” checklist. A lot of the more immediate stuff is non-fiction: essays by Lethem and Franzen, Bissell and Robinson. I’ve got one collection of short … Continue reading
Public Speaking in the News
IN THREE WEEKS I start one more summer of teaching Communication Skills. It’s been a real blessing for me. Not only has it given me something to do during the summer, it has also helped me build solid relationships with … Continue reading
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Last Gasp Thursdays (or. . . That’s a Wrap Thursday)
THE TRADITIONAL TELEVISION VIEWING SEASON is all but over. A handful of finales remain, but most are done. It’s a long wait until Big Brother, my summer friend, shows up on CBS. Until then, dissecting this past season of network … Continue reading
Catching Up with Godin (Part Two)
INNOVATION, it turns out, was the topic of another recent post by Seth Godin. Innovation, of course, was the topic a few days ago in relation to Nicholas Carr’s views on a possible “hierarchy of innovation.” Godin takes the idea … Continue reading
Catching Up with Godin (Part One)
THE MOST CONSISTENT blog I read is by Seth Godin. Godin is a writer-marketer who posts some good gems of thought pretty much everyday. Every now and then he posts a string that doesn’t really connect with me (like last … Continue reading
21st Century Maslow
I’VE KNOWN ABOUT Abraham Maslow for some time now, got his ideas stuck in my head by the time I left college. He’s part of the curriculum I use in summer school when we talk about persuasive speaking. His hierarchy … Continue reading
Music Mash-Up with Chuck Klosterman
SOMEWHERE LAST SUMMER, the band Nickelback became something of a punchline in my summer school class. I’m not sure why, at what point it happened. What was interesting, too, was that such a sentiment can be found across those who … Continue reading
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Sea Change or Shifting Sand?
I’VE SPENT the last few weeks working through David Kinnaman’s You Lost Me with co-workers. It has been an interesting, and at times heated, discussion about connecting with young adults who are “leaving the church . . . and rethinking … Continue reading
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Two Ways to Read
ONE FEATURE that I like about this blog that my old blog (which can be found here) is how it allows for filtering for different strains of thought. As I type this, I’ve got ten official “categories” running. By using … Continue reading
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The Middle Space
SPACE is an important thing. It’s part of the title of this site, of course. And it’s something that is on any mind trying to understand things. A few years ago, back when I was still trying “print media” with … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 