From the category archives:

Just thinking out loud

Technology changes, people don’t. Plugging into an old guy.

March 18, 2010

Why can’t I plug into an old guy when I turn ten years old and gain all the knowledge, wisdom and skill he has? Why do I need to start from nothing and work an entire lifetime to gain knowledge, wisdom and skill on my own, only to have it lost when I die? Why [...]

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How health insurance companies gave Obama’s health care reform it’s second wind

March 16, 2010

In November, the Democrats were on the ropes. The GOP had just elected themselves a golden child with Scott Brown and tilted the scales back below sixty votes in the Senate. They had won two gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. The media was calling the Health Care Reform bill dead. Time between now [...]

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I love Cesar Millan, but he has made my life hell

March 14, 2010

I love Cesar Millan*, but he has made my life hell, along with Emeril LaGasse, Mike Holmes, and Alton Brown. But those other guys are a completely different — though not unrelated — post. Maybe later.
You see, Cesar has made almost everyone else in the pound an expert on dog behavior with an endless [...]

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Life has been like a dog walk lately

March 9, 2010

Life and work has been a lot like our dog walks lately. Up until this week, there has been a lot of snow on the ground, so the dogs walk while I spend a lot of time slogging through snow, shuffling on ice and climbing over snow banks, all the while trying to keep my [...]

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Someday, I will be dead

March 5, 2010

I will die. It is a fact that I can’t overlook, regardless of how much work I put into denying it, putting it off or otherwise just trying to ignore it.
So, faced with the fact that I will not be escaping death, I have done the following:
- I have written my last blog post. This [...]

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The complete Olympic Games include the Paralympics

March 1, 2010

My editor wrote this over at GerardMcLean.com and I had to share. It is something that I privately champion at every opportunity, and this being one of those time, here you go.
UPDATE: @Neenz just published the Paralympics page at Alltop.com last night, Mar 5. If you know of or write a blog on the Paralympics, [...]

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When it is time to pass a torch

February 28, 2010

I spent this Sunday morning listening to a fair amount of Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan and a few other more obscure artists who moved and continue to move an entire generation. The first thought I had was “how sad that they will never be able to create another PP&M song.” The second thought [...]

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Risk as a downhill ski run, Bode Miller style

February 22, 2010

I was reading my Wall Street Journal today, page after page of blah, blah, blah and then I came across this story on page B8. It stopped me dead in my tracks.

I am not following the Winter Olympic Games nor am I really a fan of Bode Miller. I didn’t even read the article, but [...]

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What the heck is a Boondoggle?

February 17, 2010

I’m all for a good parody like the next puppy and although the assumption here is that a large percentage of the working, white middle class probably watched the Super Bowl Big Game and may have seen the Google ad (it ran once), the GOP may have been smarter to parody a Budweiser commercial [...]

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Read the writing on the paw

February 10, 2010

Yesterday, we had a guest speaker – Sarah – come into the DogWalk to motivate us to get out there and walk regularly, even if there is two feet of snow outside, kids home from school everywhere and cars zipping by us as we walk in the street.
Then, Charlie noticed that Sarah had some writing [...]

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Geaux away

February 8, 2010

I’ve been half French all my life. It’s not something I chose or can change. My mother’s maiden name is Clavette.* Her mother’s maiden name was Pelletier. And that goes back a very long way. We only ended up American because the French apparently were really bad at making compasses and the family ended up [...]

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You are not lost, you are here and you know where here is, right?

February 1, 2010

You are reading DogWalkBlog.com, produced and written in Dayton, Ohio. We are talking with Rufus, one of the key writers of the blog where he reminds us why you, time and place are important for blog credibility and reader orienteering.
I was reading a blog from a linked tweet this morning and halfway through it, my [...]

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In the world of creativity, they will remain average

January 29, 2010

I ran across this video by Tom Peters. Watch it.

Peters makes some powerful points about education, but I don’t entirely agree with everything he says.
Creativity is not a refusal to color inside the lines. It is a conscious decision to color outside the lines, knowing what the lines mean and why they are there. Refusing [...]

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Home kitchens are not functional

January 24, 2010

I cooked breakfast this morning. I hate home kitchens because they are more like living rooms with furniture rather than places to prepare food. I don’t know why or how this trend started, but anyone who cooks at home needs to work in a restaurant kitchen for even a few weeks to know the following [...]

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Everyone in Washington is behind the wheel, but nobody is driving.

January 10, 2010

The first thing my driver’s education teacher taught me, after he showed me the volume knob also clicked the radio off, was that in all situations, at all times, always know where your safety zone was. If someone was behind you and couldn’t stop, where were you going to pull into to get out of [...]

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Real airport security is very low tech

December 29, 2009

With all the news media chattering on about this latest round of terrorism with flight 253 and the guy with a bad stomach in the restroom, we are seeing the latest group of pundits advocating for more technology, full-body scans, etc, etc.
Oh, brother.
Real airport security is far more low-tech than that. Here is the [...]

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Life worth living is seen in the crop

December 20, 2009

It snowed yesterday and I would be horribly unneighborly if I did not share at least one photo from our morning walk. Here is the most beautiful thing I saw stepping outside my front door.

Pull back a little bit and you would see a snow-covered road that was a bit messy with tire tracks. Pull [...]

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Plain Joe Lieberman

December 18, 2009

If you haven’t already seen the “one more moment” video between Lieberman and Franken, here it is.

At first, I just laughed. Funny people, Senators. “Let him talk, he wasn’t saying anything anyway.”
But then I got to thinking. If Joe Lieberman had to deal with real life the way we all out here in Realitytown have [...]

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Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP health care dissent?

December 15, 2009

I bolted straight up in bed last night and asked myself the most obvious question most folks in the media should be asking themselves about the health care reform debate. “Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP dissent?”
Think about this. When was the last time you had forty supposedly independent-minded people agree on anything? [...]

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