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šµ Now Playing: Money Can’t Buy It by Annie Lennox from the album Diva on ļ£æMusic
Read morePicking up Lucy today from the pet hospital. Hereās hoping we stay home and well this time.
Read moreWhen a mistake is made & the first question asked is, āWho did this? Whoās responsible?ā Itās probably not a psychologically safe environment. If your goal is to name, blame, & shame your own employees, how can you be surprised when they donāt take risks or initiative?
Read moreHearing NPR play some BeyoncĆ© (and Bonnie Raitt say sheās a big fan) warms the cockles of my shriveled little heart. I hope RENAISSANCE š“ absolutely sweeps the Grammys. It is such a tremendous dance record for so many reasons.
Read moreOn a positive note, I seem to have somehow landed a new job. Itās all still a bit up in the air. Thereās not even a job description written yet. But the Director said she wants āthe bestā for this new role and she believes thatās me. Glad at least one of us does! šµāš«
Read moreBack to the ER with Lucy, whoās refusing to eat.
Read moreBack in her own bed ā¤ļøš¶
Read moreLucy is back home. Still has a few days of stabilization and medication to go, but sheās heading the right direction I think. ā¤ļøš¶
Read moreLucy had a good night and was more alert this morning. Theyāre still stabilizing her insulin levels but sheās on track to come home this afternoon. š¶ā¤ļø
Read moreOur Lucy Beagle has pancreatitis which is being complicated by her diabetes so they want to keep her another 24 hours in the hospital. Sheās still not eating so theyāre going to put a feeding tube in to get some calories into her. Theyāre going to monitor her glucose and adjust insulin dosages. The doc said most dogs heal fine after having a swollen pancreas, so heās ācautiously optimisticā which I guess is positive.
Read moreHIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON
In my Christian upbringing, from which Iām still recovering, I sang for our small, all white, mostly out-of-tune church choir. šµ The Battle Hymn of the Republic was always my favorite song to sing. We only sang it once a year. It was one of the few performances that would earn applause from the quiet, conservative, white audience in the pews. I never knew its history until reading this piece.
Read moreOn sobriety: itās funny to me how, from one perspective, 7 days is nothing but barely even a speck. But from another perspective 7 days is everything. An absolutely monumental milestone.
Read morešµ Now Playing: Your Woman by White Town from the album Women In Technology on ļ£æMusic
Read moreLily decided I needed a short break. I didnāt argue.
Read moreA few photos I snapped yesterday morning on the wet way to work. I loved the lights shining on the wet pavement.
Read morePosted this on LinkedIn. Really hoping I donāt get fired for it. A few years ago, my profile photo was a picture of me with Jane Elliott, a well-known, wonderful, brassy and outspoken anti-racist advocate. She was my hero then, and she still is. But these days I have an additional hero: Heather Cox-Richardson. Profoundly intelligent and brave, she speaks the truth, and she speaks it to power with such grace that I am always in awe when I read a piece of her writing.
Read moreHow DO you solve a problem like Maria?
Read moreTesting a micropost from MarsEdit. I suppose the intention is to make it faster to post short updates?
Read moreTo be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community. -R. David Lankes
Read moreWHAT I THOUGHT OF WEB 2.0
In grad school I took a knowledge management foundations class that I really liked. Each week we had to post these āblog pointsā and then weād read each otherās posts and comment on them and get our participation points for the week. You know, as you do. Today I came across this one blog point Iād written for that class. Itās living as a writing sample in my portfolio on my (now rather stale) website, librarymatthew.
Read moreš§Ŗ This is a test post.
Read morešµ One of my favorite earworms:
Read moreRoberta Flackās first piano came from a junkyard ā five Grammys would follow Roberta Flack recently announced that she has ALS. She can no longer sing or speak. Tragic. That really makes me sad. :(
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