by svsauthor | Oct 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
A few weeks back I read a New York Times op-ed piece titled “I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.”* While I agreed with some of the content of the article (it was about not following all social norms), the title itself set me off. There was a time...
by svsauthor | Sep 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
A basic tenet of outdoor leadership is to make sure novices have a positive experience when they encounter untrammeled nature for the first time. Their initial outing need not be grand, but it ought to be fun and non-threatening. Stark conditions and rugged terrain...
by svsauthor | Sep 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
The leaves are beginning to change. For it to occur this early in September, the reason might be more the lack of rain than the time of the year. It is more than leaf color letting me know that fall, if not already here, is only a week or two away. I wear a jacket and...
by svsauthor | Sep 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ninety percent of the time it does not matter whether more than ten people read my blog. Friends look at it, and the effort put toward submitting a weekly entry is excellent writing practice. Those two not insignificant benefits are enough to keep me going....
by svsauthor | Sep 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
In last week’s blog I mentioned an outer suburb of Taipei called Taoyuan. When I lived in Taiwan during the early 1990s, Taoyuan was home to the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. Today the same airport is called the Taoyuan International Airport. Chiang...
by svsauthor | Aug 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last week Manyu and I met with Cody, our financial advisor. We’ve had someone overseeing my retirement account since I started working at UW-La Crosse in 1993, but it still feels odd for me to say I even have a financial advisor. What would the twenty-eight year old...
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