Get Paid for Doing a Good Deed!
How many times have I urged you guys to do something to help to make the world a little better place? Sure, I’ve suggested clicking a good deed and engaging in random acts of kindness, but how ’bout...
View ArticleLive Responsibly
Yesterday I dug several plastic bottles out of the trash and dropped them into the recycling bin just outside our door. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t find plastic bottles in the trash before...
View ArticleNo Child Left Behind (and Other Fairy Tales)
So there I was, another Saturday in the Mac Lab, with thirty two kids this time. The first showed a few ticks after 6:00, followed by a steady stream of smiling faces. Well, mostly smiling. So why, you...
View ArticleWhat Will People Say?
“What will people say?” In these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere. –...
View ArticleChoose Wisely
How many times have I gone on my do the right thing rant this year? As I pose that question to you, I can hear Dumbledore’s challenge to Harry in my mind: We must choose between doing what is right,...
View ArticleLook Yourself in the Eye
Summer is a great time to unwind. But it’s also a perfect opportunity for introspection. What is it you want to achieve? (Luke W) Do you even know what you want to do? And what about your contributions...
View ArticleThe Journey Begins Anew
Part of the communication problem, as we shall see, is the strangeness of what is being found… Very few people are synthesizing information being gathered in far-flung places. — Marilyn Ferguson If you...
View ArticleGiving Your All (Week 17)
The invisible tensive straws that can save us are those of individual human integrities — in daring to steer the individual’s course only by truth, strange as the realized truth may often seem —...
View ArticleU B U (Week 22)
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. —...
View ArticleNew and Improved! (Week 35)
Art is never finished, only abandoned. — Leonardo da Vinci Before you abandon the Mac Lab for your summer adventures, be sure you take care of business. Number One: Have you checked the time sheets...
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