Entries from February 2009

February 24, 2009

Could the family handle it?

I’m currently taking a Cross Cultural Communications class – and I’m loving it! I’ve been looking forward to this course for a long time – ever since I attended (and live blogged from) the Intercultural Managment Institute’s annual conference.  Dr. Gary Weaver, the Executive Director of IMI, teaches the course.
I’ll probably post quite a bit [...]

February 20, 2009

No such thing as a typical week

Today I realized something that has probably been glaring me in the face for a long time.
I always plan for the typical week. My schedule, beautifully laid out in multicolored iCal goodness, never includes things like getting sick, emergency room visits, or neighbors stopping by. So we have to leave a little margin in our [...]