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September 11th and excuse-making

Happy Friday morning – the one before September 11th – the “wake up” call day for all Americans.  Life as we knew it eleven years ago is no more … and maybe that’s a good thing.  We were a bit naive to think that because we are US citizens we are somehow exempt from the [...]

Start a “Secret Friday eMail”

This was in a newsletter that I receive each morning (Early to Rise http://www.earlytorise.com.) I thought you might adopt something like this for your new and evolving yearbook and/or newsmagazine team.  It could be a lot shorter and could go to each staffer’s gmail publication account (hint, hint).  I would love to be copied on [...]

Happy Back-to-School!

And here we are again… starting another school year.  I hope you had a restful and recuperative summer.  Mine was challenging and filled to the brim with great activities, wonderful conversations and powerful interaction.  Each Camp Wannamaka was terrific and Meet Me @ Miami (College) Media WorkShops was unbelieveable!  Thanks to each of our top-notch [...]

Happy Back to School!

I will go on “learning to play” until I have “learned to play” and then I will begin to play.

THE MORE THOUGHTFUL THE ‘NO,’ THE MORE POWERFUL THE ‘YES’

Be my hall monitor on this, PLEASE!

Life Coaching at Work

Had a great opportunity to catch my bratty inner voice grumbling during my first barre class at my Pilates studio this week.  I had scheduled myself for Pilates every day (starting with a private lesson on Monday) and into two of the new barre classes.   When I got into the first one … I [...]

THANK YOU to all of the advisers, yearbook and newsmagazine staffers and editors who invested four full days in their personal and professional development at Florida Tech this last week. The campus was the best! The food was unbelieveable! The residence halls were upscale. The walking allowed us to eat and eat and eat. The [...]

Summer is “almost” officially here in South Florida for everyone at the end of the day today (well, Martin County has planning on Monday). WOOO-WEEEE! Now what? Hopefully people will make the opportunity to travel and hopefully it will be to somewhere there is no storm damage or no HEAT! Me? Just one trip – [...]

In honor of Memorial Day! I like this teacher. This is a lesson that should be taught in all schools . . including colleges and universities. Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock , did something not [...]

“Seeing is believing” certainly could be a theme for yearbook advisers and staffs this time of year, couldn’t it? You’ve been hoping, working, designing, writing, shooting, cropping, color-correcting your little old hearts out … and now you can SEE and HOLD and CHERISH the book that captures the year for everyone in your school. “Seeing [...]