Archive for April, 2013
good guidelines
I’ve just received author guidelines from my publisher, and there’s one bit I’m extremely pleased with: they specifically note that their readers have diverse backgrounds, and ask specifically for examples using men and women, and people of different ethnic groups. I’m pleased about this on two grounds: inclusivity and pure laziness. I’d already done that, […]
THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
If I’ve been quiet around here lately, it’s been partly because I was sitting on a big announcement until I was able to make it public. My book, to be called Fundamentals of Business Process Management, has been accepted by AMACOM, publishing arm of the American Management Association) and will be published in Spring of […]
God is an Englishman?
I’ve been readin God is an Englishman, by R. Delderfield, and having a reaction that can best be summarized as “I like it but…” I think I’d like it better if I’d never read Middlemarch, and possibly also if I’d read it in the early 1970s, when it was new. The problem for me is […]
life’s curveballs
I’ve been enjoying the week at the lake house; Ted’s back now, which is even nicer, but it was definitely good having the cats here. (Well, mostly.) I was just about to write a post about some recent strange behavior from our cats, when I heard via Facebook that a friend of ours has just […]
productive procrastination
Today I: cleaned 2.5 bathrooms (one more to go), Swiffered all hard-surface flooring downstairs, rowed, weeded horsetails and mushrooms about of the the back and about a 3 feet square part of the overgrown front area, walked to the pick up some stuff at the local grocery store and stopped by the diner and new […]
not done enough quite yet
On the one hand, it’s noon and I’ve just showered and dressed. On the other, it’s noon and I’ve gotten up before 7, made the coffee (for other people – I don’t drink coffee), responded to a business email, lifted weights, stretched, stripped the bed, washed the sheets and comforter cover, eaten breakfast, vacuumed the […]
At the lake
I’m at the lake house for the week. We were here for a regatta; I raced Saturday and came in DFL (but with a much better time than if I’d stayed on the couch and not raced!) then Tedbraced today and did pretty well (2nd in his heat, 4th in the finals after all the […]
meanwhile, back at the townhouse
Life proceeds apace. I have been doing responsible things, like opening up an IRA I can roll all my 401(k) accounts from pervious jobs into, and applying for new jobs. (No nibbles yet. I have to say that I’m not feeling reassured by the vagaries of some of the websites these companies are using; yesterday […]
very little to see here
I just deleted a few vague sentences on topics that might be good but probably shouldn’t be talked about in public yet. This even vaguer vagueness is as close as I am comfortable coming to squeeing in public at this point. It’s like “Squee” “(shush!)” “But squeeeee!” “No, no, no, mustn’t jinx anything!” It’s very […]
Maybe not
A fear turns a niggle, A routine annoyance, Into a sinkhole – Unexpected block To future travels. That’s all I got. I may not be doing that April poem-a-day thing going around – somewhere along the way I realized that “didactic” and “poetry” stopped being an acceptable combination of words shortly after Pope left us […]