Math Matters
Full disclosure: I struggled with math throughout my early education. The normal course of math in high school (way, way back in the seventies) was ninth-grade algebra, followed by tenth-grade geometry. As a junior, you took advanced algebra, and as a senior, pre-calculus. Well, that didn’t turn out to be the path for me. As […]
Are You Satisfied?
A habit that Coach Fred Hoiberg, Nebraska’s basketball coach, developed this past year—and one that drew national attention during the team’s March Madness run—was asking his players in the locker room after each game, “Are you satisfied?” The resounding response was always a thundering, “No!” The team wanted more: more chances to win, more chances […]
Where do you get your news and facts?
This is a question I am often asked: “Where do you get your news, and how do you fact-check what you read?” Answering that question is more difficult today than when I was a kid and news outlets were just that—news. Much of today’s news has become entertainment, often feeding our expectations, desires, and beliefs. […]
Property Tax Is a Ninth-Grade Algebra Equation
’ll start this blog post with a quick nod to my Omaha Public Schools education and a thank you to a teacher from my past. Miss Tanner at Morton Junior High School didn’t give up on me, even though my fourteen-year-old brain could not, for the life of me, understand why letters and numbers belonged […]
Why I Serve
I can’t stand it when things aren’t right. I have to admit that when I’m knocking on doors and meeting neighbors, I often straighten a doormat or untangle a flag. Saturday, I fixed a doorbell that was loose and not level. If something is out of whack, it’s like an alarm goes off, and it […]