All posts for the month March, 2012

Erupted

The more you do, the more you are expected to do.” The way of the world is of those granted much, much is expected. Much is not always money. Much is often time, talent, drive, skills, propensity, charity, resolve, kindness, compassion, courage, foresight, problem-solving, strength, …and more or some combination of them.

Time Suck

The conclusion we drew yesterday was time is valuable. Let’s take Ben’s perspective and think of time as money. We are not going to think of time as how much you can earn in an hour. Instead, we are going to look at where we spend our time away from our occupations and assorted jobs.

Worth Partying For

Thursday’s MAD question: Why do we throw parties? We celebrate the wonderful events in our lives by giving gifts. It is a celebration of having. We celebrate birthdays (having life), weddings (having love), graduations (having education), but what about those who have nothing to celebrate? Can you take the challenge to Make A Difference?

Diamonds in the Hourglass

Over the last week, a theme has developed, which by last Friday was destined to become a series. We looked into the vortex into which time slips when we are busy doing everything and nothing. We also looked at the emergencies of others which eat away not only our time, but also our (money, energy, faith […]

Writers Spotlight: H.E. Ellis

The Gods of Asphalt

Judging from the crop of young people clustered around the M3 Coffee Shoppe table, Red was right in guessing H.E. Ellis was talking about the new book, The Gods of Asphalt. Like them, Red had questions which brought out some amazing answers from the YA author.