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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Return of the Native

Today we took residence of our really-good-deal San Francisco rental. This places me back in my home town for the first time since August, 1979, when I took off for New York City to begin my junior year in college, following two years in which I saved up money by working as a records clerk […]

Reflections on strategic plans that are neither strategic nor plans

It’s Christmas morning and I have some quality blogging time for the first time since returning to California late October and starting my new job. I pick up Sandy in four hours, and between now and then, I will drink hot chocolate, go for a nice walk, and write about strategic plans. I have been […]

Navigating above Cloud-Level

(Note, I am alone Christmas Eve, but Sandy joins me tomorrow–so excuse the holiday post!) Though I hate the slog of air travel per se, I do love flight, and my favorite moment is when the plane lifts above cloud level, with the sky above us and the cloud stretched out underneath in an infinite […]

Home to the City!

I have a numinous, well-crafted post that will have to wait as this month’s temp apartment hasn’t had wifi in three days. Then again it doesn’t have heat to speak of. I can blog a little on the iPhone but I have yet to find the toasty-toes app. (The wordpress iPhone app doesn’t make it […]

We’re Here! Have a home for us?

Very good news: Sandy has been called as the pastor for a church in San Francisco.  They are happy and we are happy… more news on that front later! Obviously we are meant to be in the Bay Area. Now we just need a place to live… Sandy is back in Florida finishing up the […]

Must-read Project Information Literacy Report

If you can make time for reading just one professional report over the holidays, please make it Project Information Literacy’s (PIL’s) latest research report, “Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age” released on Tuesday, Dec. 1 (42 pages, PDF, 3 MB). (Note that I didn’t narrow “you” to those of us […]