Ed Romond loved mathematics. After high school, he got a BA in math, and started his career teaching high school math in Boston. While his wife was matriculating through a Psychiatric Nursing program, she planted a seed of alternative interest, suggesting that Ed consider a more challenging career possibility in medicine. He was intrigued: it…
Last Fall, we cut down a struggling crabapple tree. [It allowed me to acquire a new tool … a really cool battery powered chain saw!] This Spring we noticed some vibrant, shiny, new red-leafed sprouts coming out of the ground in odd places around the extended perimeter of what had been the crabapple tree. They…
“It’s like brains get wired differently over time.” – Elizabeth Warren [Commenting on the evolving and often contradictory regulations for major financial institutions] In fact, life is nothing if it’s not about “getting wired differently over time”. We start out with a very small window on the world and with only nominally imprinted neuroplasm. Then we…
“It sounds somewhat ridiculous to say that one of the problems we face … is that we haven’t learned how to spend free time in a sensible way … whether America succeeds as a civilization will depend on the way we use free time.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in “Finding Flow”, p. 64 Meanwhile, capitalizing on all the “Free…
[From Season of Life by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Marx, Simon & Schuster, 2003] Gilman High School in Maryland has an unusual and highly successful football team. And its coaches have a few unusual rules — such as an ironclad rule that no Gilman football player should ever let another Gilman boy — teammate or not — eat lunch by…