Archive for April, 2011
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The NFL draft begins tonight – which means a few young men barely of drinking age will wear $1,000 suits and smile broadly for the ESPN cameras, rejoicing that they are instant millionaires… and fortunate not to be selected by the Oakland Raiders.
A peculiarity of this annual rite of football passage is how personnel directors [...]
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Tags: approach, bright futures, college, college acceptance, draft, education, Emmitt Smith, fathe, Florida, gradua, multiple choice questions, NFL, Oakland, oakland raiders, pep rallies, personnel directors, rushing records, SAT, standardized assessment, success, TAKS, taks test, test, Texas, texas students, time, tonight, yard dash time, year
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
I read the other day – and if I could remember who penned it, I’d give him/her credit… apologies upfront – that the concept of writer’s block is a myth. After all, the author questioned, “Is there such a thing as plumber’s block?” Seems like a logical point. Other professionals get up every morning, go [...]
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Tags: big trouble, block, concept, credit, day, distraction, dries, drip, intense efforts, morning, newspaper columnist, plumber, point, reason, roadblocks, Seth Godin, something, these blog entries, upfront, way, writer
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
The Jury Summons arrived three weeks ago… instructing me to be in the holding room before 9 a.m. today. Traffic during the commute was congestion-free, so I walked through the doors of an empty courthouse 45 minutes early. I had turned in one page of paperwork and read two chapters of a novel on my [...]
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Tags: bailiff, business, business coach, closed doors, commute, executive business, juror, juror number, jurors, Jury, jury duty, jury summons, Mr. Handler, o clock, party, person panel, punctuality, room, someone, Summons, today, Tom Lawrence, Traffic
Denying Eyes
Thursday, April 28th, 2011The NFL draft begins tonight – which means a few young men barely of drinking age will wear $1,000 suits and smile broadly for the ESPN cameras, rejoicing that they are instant millionaires… and fortunate not to be selected by the Oakland Raiders.
A peculiarity of this annual rite of football passage is how personnel directors [...]
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Tags: approach, bright futures, college, college acceptance, draft, education, Emmitt Smith, fathe, Florida, gradua, multiple choice questions, NFL, Oakland, oakland raiders, pep rallies, personnel directors, rushing records, SAT, standardized assessment, success, TAKS, taks test, test, Texas, texas students, time, tonight, yard dash time, year