Continue learning….

Saw this over at JT’s blog
Academic Earth is a website with tons of free lectures and courses taught by top scholars from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale
I am going to watch the one on the “5 critical skills needed by Entrepreneurs” and “How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue It? [...]

What I learned from St. Francis….

The hotel not the saint, in this instance.
1.  By the second time I drove up to the parking garage to leave the rental car, even though I was a car back and it was raining and he probably didn’t see my face clearly through the drizzle, the parking supervisor mouthed: “Welcome back Mrs. Salomon”  I [...]

Mini vacation in San Francisco

I hadn’t realized but it had been 4 years we hadn’t taken a family vacation! No wonder this was so wonderful to have a three day getaway to San Francisco. We also made this a birthday celebration for Elizabeth’s upcoming 20th birthday. Wow was it refreshing and relaxing.  Even though rain was forecast for the [...]

REmembering Grandpa……

It had been grey and rainy for days.  There were all kinds of mistakes in the few days prior.  The death certificate had a wrong name. The permit wasn’t ready and without it we couldn’t travel with grandpa’s remains.  The faxes wouldn’t go through. I had to travel to pick up a corrected copy just [...]

I love the creative process…

I have just realized that!  It is the process of discovery…..the ah-ha moment.  Have you ever said to yourself….”Why didn’t I think of that?”….or often….”I thought of that but….”  That’s usually in connection with some handy gadget or time saving device….. 
Here is a list of almost 1,000 business ideas (off of Seth Godin’s blog) I [...]

24 things about to disappear in America

 
24. Yellow Pages This year will be pivotal for the global Yellow Pages industry. Much like newspapers, print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts, from Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), to local search engines and combination search/listing services like Reach Local and Yodle Factors like an acceleration of the print [...]

This is blowing my mind…..

Back home…..

I enjoyed reading the book below on my flight to and front Portland.  
We had a good session at the LWML Board of Directors meeting.  Thanks for prayer.  I am feeling so much better.  I appreciate your continued prayers for my mom.  It will be tough for a while for her. 
There is so much work [...]