Not every day is going to offer us a chance to save somebody’s life, but every day offers us an opportunity to affect one.
-I think from a TED talk but I searched for it and can’t find it
I was 31 when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It was around then that support groups for young adults with cancer and survivors of cancer were starting to pop up. I learned about one called I’m Too Young for This (some years later renamed Stupid Cancer). No idea how I learned about it, but … Read more
I have heard people say that they can’t retire, or their spouse can’t retire, because they’d be bored. They’d have nothing to do. I can’t imagine. There are so many things I want to do and learn and try that I suspect that if I retired immediately and lived 50 more years, I would have … Read more
I saw a meme that depicted a student climbing a ladder where the rungs were the arms of teachers and coaches. I saw a video of a recently-retired band teacher honored with a surprise concert and a massive instrument donation to his school. I reread a note from a former student who I had taught … Read more
Tagging on to the post the other day about eating vegetarian… If you change your diet to have less or no meat, besides taking things out, you will likely need to add things in. Our most common meals growing up included meat as the main, veggies and bread on the side. Meat + veggie + … Read more
Not every day is going to offer us a chance to save somebody’s life, but every day offers us an opportunity to affect one.
-I think from a TED talk but I searched for it and can’t find it
The Kid was taking pictures when we were climbing the other day and caught this one of The Climbing Daddy falling.
I was exploring WordPress, trying to find a way to change the way comments work. I’ve gotten several messages from people saying they’d like to comment but there’s no way to do it. There is. But not from the main feed. Let me explain. If you go to my website—heat-weirdlastname.com—the default page is the blog. … Read more
The TED Interview has been an interesting little series to work through. Chris Anderson talks with people who have given TED talks to delve a little deeper into their content. Through this, I listened to a “bonus episode” (not found on the site linked above, but accessible through a podcast app) of Ezra Klein interviewing … Read more
That’s what I wrote on Facebook eight years ago. I had traveled to NJ to present at a conference. (I love doing that!! Public speaking is fun scary.) I had spent several sessions with Michael, my therapist, working on a scripted conversation with my mom. (This is several years after starting with him.) To put … Read more
If you’ve been following my story with regards to bouldering, you know that in December, I gained the skill necessary to complete a route and competed in my first competition, and in January, I participated in my second competition. Both of these were driven by desire to climb in this year’s big competition in April. … Read more