I was in New York this week delivering my friend’s cat that I fostered for the last two and a half years. I did conference calls from Central Park and zoomed meetings from my friend’s basement office. I’m now without a cat (don’t anyone think of giving me one) and...
November was a rollercoaster for me. (Probably for a lot of people - but this is about me.) I’ve had that odd anticipatory butterfly gut feeling for the last 30 days. It’s a mixture of my foster cat going home (I’ve had her for 2.5 years - I’m in serious...
I hope everyone was able to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. As I am sitting writing this article, my wife is busy baking kringla. (I think I am eating them as fast as she is baking them). Over the years she has been trying to perfect the recipe that her mom...
I have been following a few friends on Facebook that took the 30 day thankfulness challenge. It is basically a daily gratitude journal that they are sharing for the month of November. I really enjoy reading their posts as it reminds me of all of the wonderful things we have...
I asked my book club members if the book they were reading colored their mood. “Yes” they said, “So does the movie you just watched or the Netflix series you are bingeing”. Someone I follow on Twitter posted today “what’s the saddest movie you ever saw?”. Lots of people replied...
In Des Moines, down by the river, are dirt trails for biking. Wild turns and hills and stumps … if you are riding these trails, this is supposed to be fun. I did it last weekend and fell off several times. I was fairly close to dying many times. It...
During the last few weeks, I had to relocate temporarily as my office was under construction for the new HVAC. During that time I had to clean off my desk and bulletin board. After being in the same office for a number of years, you find things you have forgotten...
Someone said the other day when I said let’s think outside the box, “Oh, I hate that phrase.” For me, it’s hard to have an active conversation without filling it with phrases and adages and stories that help me express my point. And, visually, a phrase like ‘let’s think outside...
Dang. I’m overwhelmed, everyone - the cards, the gifts, the poems, the cupcakes … the videos and comments. Seriously overwhelmed. Thank you for helping me celebrate my 25th anniversary here at Iowa Specialty Hospitals and Clinics. It’s been an amazing journey. I remember talking to Quint Studer in Pensacola sometime...
One of my favorite rounding questions this year is the question - what are you the most proud of either personally, professionally or both? For most people they’re most proud of something to do with their families, and I love to hear the pride in their voice as they share...
