Co-opetition

November 15, 2012

If the title seems to be wrong, it’s not…I’m currently reading a book by the same name. It’s not a new book, but it is new to me (thanks, Mark Lawson for steering me to it…). The ideas espoused in the book are not new either, per se, because people who are competitive have been [...]

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Sleepless on the way to Seattle

November 6, 2012

Not really…but I am driving up there starting tomorrow, and I hope to remain sleepless…at least while I’m behind the wheel… So I’m in the day of preparation, which is generally frantic. This time, though, I don’t feel all that much stress…either about the trip itself, or the 4 separate presentations I make over 2 [...]

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I Had Something

October 31, 2012

Today’s post takes its title from our Ipod shuffle tune… (newbies: look below) Seeing the pictures of the water destruction from the east coast has dredged up memories of the tsunami in northern Japan, and, of course, Katrina. Once I get past the agony of the destruction, both societally and for all those affected at [...]

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It’s Not Supposed to Be Easy

October 29, 2012

The San Francisco Giants won the World Series for the second time in three years last night. I’ll have more to say about this in my next Monday Morning Email article for Creator’s website, but for now, I’d like to talk about one of the postgame quotes: “For one, we didn’t allow doubt to ever [...]

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What a Difference a Rehearsal Makes

October 26, 2012

I’ve been directing choirs for almost 50 years now (did I really just write that?) in 2 countries and many different situations, and there are a few things I’ve learned to not stress over. One of those things is that from time to time you have one of “those” rehearsals. It can be because the [...]

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October 24, 2012

Appropriate Ipod tune today. We had a massive server melt down for the Creator site, and the stress has been unbelievable. If you were on the site today and had difficulty, I apologize. Hopefully everything is fixed, but we have one little thing that we’re still trying to chase down. In other, better news, the [...]

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Back again…

October 22, 2012

It’s been awhile (yeah, Vern… a month and a half…) I’ve got good excuses (too many other things, not enough time…the usual…) So why am I back? Because one of the projects I’m working on requires that I re-read everything I’ve written, including here, to look for some things…so I started at the beginning of [...]

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Are You Worried?

September 11, 2012

Yesterday’s GoDaddy outage affected this blog as well as thousands, if not millions, of other websites. Poof…we were all gone. Does that worry you? One of the issues with centralizing everything is something the military has known for like ever… if you cut off the head, the body dies. As more and more information, both [...]

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History is Important

August 31, 2012

This month would have been my dad’s 105th birthday, and, over the course of this month, I’m talking about some things that he taught me. I don’t remember my dad ever sitting me down and saying “”Listen up…you need to learn this…” He taught by his life example, and a lot of the things on [...]

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Stay Active to Stay Healthy

August 28, 2012

This month would have been my dad’s 105th birthday, and, over the course of this month, I’m talking about some things that he taught me. I don’t remember my dad ever sitting me down and saying “”Listen up…you need to learn this…” He taught by his life example, and a lot of the things on [...]

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