At the beginning of this week, I saw a LinkedIn post from Cheryl Cardamon about a website called Island Dog Gear…now I don’t know about many of you but for me, it was like the angels were singing!!!  I was born and raised in Hawai’i and have always tried to keep items around my house [...]

Here’s another commentary that I came across today which I thought was absolutely brilliant in passion, thought, and detail on why we need to quit placing this label on all students. It’s entitled “Stop Complaining About Kids Today” beautifully written by Gary Cole. It’s a great glimpse into the life of this rural high school [...]

If you are employed in any type of school system, take a moment to read this.  I came across this article on Sunday by Julia Steiny entitled “Suspending students only makes a bad situation worse.” We need students to learn…learn when they are in school.  There is no doubt that they won’t learn anything if [...]

If you’re already thinking about some New Year’s resolutions even before Christmas, you’re certainly a planner!  Well one of my friends Bob Matthews, the founder of Power1K, sent a great email around today entitled “Better Not Perfect”.  For all of  you incredibly over organized and linear thinkers, this certainly will be a challenge.  What Bob [...]

Today I was very saddened to hear the death of Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry…such a needless tragedy.  It makes me think back to being in college when relationships between boyfriends and girlfriends seemed to rise to another level, at least for me.  What I didn’t know at the time was that relationships are time [...]

Although this hasn’t happened to me in quite some time, I just felt the need to write about it to see if it brings back the vivid memories for you as it does for me…I remember when this first happened to me.  Now being from Hawaii, there wasn’t a need to give anything warmer than [...]

This is a quick follow up to my original post on role models…I was very encouraged that it stirred up conversation via my facebook!  I actually was shown a great perspective that I hadn’t thought about by a good friend!  By the way, this isn’t a plug but if anyone is interested and needing some [...]

How does someone become a role model?  With the recent news of Tiger Woods personal troubles I felt the need to express my views on more of the generality of being a role model.  I feel that a person never chooses to become a role model; that label is always given to them after doing [...]

1.  Contacts are just data and information; relationships are people and lives 2.  Contacts are names you can regurgitate; relationships are folks you call friends 3.  Contacts grow in volume; relationships grow in value 4.  Contacts come and go in your list; relationships take a while to come and rarely go away 5.  Contacts fit [...]

Okay so today is my birthday…I’ve decided to not go down the same road that folks normally go down when you begin to get up past your “so called” young years…So today is my 43rd year on this planet and here’s what I have learned so far… 1.  Don’t try to change people…it just leads [...]