Sunday Update: None
No update today. I’m spending all my free time with my mom. Being with those you love as they move from this room to the next is a very important part of health care. In the end, holding my moms hand is way more important than going for a walk.
Sunday Update: Hospice
My great nephew and I are on a plane from NC to Iowa, coming home from vacation. We swam a lot, walked even more, ate well and had a great time. We considered not going because my mom is so sick. She insisted I take that 10 year old boy to NYC and have a…
What Makes a Good Facebook Post
Brevity This is not the place to write six paragraphs on one post. We don’t need to know how smart you are. We need to know the what of it all – what it is, what it means for me, what do you want me to do. Pictures If you can tell me in a…
What really matters?
My mother was born in 1929 – when the stock market crashed, when food was more valuable than most other things, when life was hard. When Christmas came one year (she was little and can’t remember the year) all she got was this little bear. Her brother Paul got a small truck. That was it.…
Sunday Update: Vacation
I’m on vacation. Friday I wandered three airports and got in 10,000 steps. Saturday I played in the pool at Tanglewood, NC — great park too. Hung out in the lazy river. Today we are driving to Philly and hanging out with Gigi and her kids. Tuesday we are walking the boardwalk all day. Pretty…
Suspended Coffees
John Sweeney knows what it’s like to be down and out. He’s been misjudged since his early years, bullied by students and teachers alike. Told he’d never amount to anything and the best he could hope to be was a plumber. Yet John knew since he was little he’d figure out a way to make…
RAGBRAI Rides Through Webster City on Tuesday
Things to do during RAGBRAI when you’re in Webster City … Flipgrid (you can do this right now from wherever you are!) Flipgrid is an online application currently being used by design teams, in religious settings, in online research projects, at businesses and government offices for collaboration, at weddings, by architects, and in numerous community…
Sunday Update: Things Hurt
Aging is a powerful thing. What you used to do easily, now requires forethought and preparation. Think ‘staying out all night and going to work in the morning’. Thing ‘walking miles without have built up your body to doing so.’ The second one is my complaint today. We had an event yesterday and I was…
Marketing to Millenials
The Better Business Bureau has shared this article with us. It’s brief, concise and to the point. Tips for Marketing To Millennials The Millennial Generation is now as large, if not larger, than the Baby Boomers. They are a popular target for advertisers and marketers, but what is important to this age group born…
dot what?
They’re called gTLDs — that i generic Top Level Domains. Now you no longer need to be a .com or .net or .org. You can choose an extension that makes sense for your business. There are over 810 extensions now available, and don’t pay to get the list or sign up for a newsletter/email list/etc.…