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A Publishing Adventure #1
I’m totally NOT hovering over my email, waiting for news from the publishers to which I’ve submitted my book proposal. It drives me crazy when people do that… it’s a waste of energy. “Don’t you have a life!?” I wonder to myself. It’s just like giving your number to a hot somebody and hovering by…
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Phyllis Stiles: Inspiring Impact
(Phyllis Stiles photo by Joye Ardyn Durham) Phyllis created Bee City – USA in Asheville, NC in 2012 out of a desire to make a difference for pollinators. This year, we celebrate Bee City’s 10 year anniversary and 400 Bee Cities and Bee Campuses across the country. What a legacy! Phyllis’ work has motivated me…
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Instructional Design: Go Backwards for the Best Training
What’s the simplest thing you can do to improve your learning units? Go backwards! You’re confused. It’s normal. Let me explain… Backwards Design is a strategy for creating learning units that begins where most educators end: with the Learning Objectives. Learning units are whatever you’re teaching or training from which you want people to learn…
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TNR Means Lifelong Care
This is Bingo, watching me trying to creep up and take a decent photo of him. He’s one of three “vet project” cats in a colony I help manage near my apartment. He and his friends, Moustachia and Freddy, need/ed a veterinarian’s care. A colony caregiver is responsible for their cats’ health, food, and water…
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I’m New Here
I moved to New Jersey in spring of 2020, and have encountered many strange things in America’s most densely-populated state. No Left Turns I learned how to drive about two decades ago in North Carolina, where you turn left when you want to go somewhere on your left, and right when you want to go…
