Project Working Mom:
Putting Education to Work

Write about environmental ethics issues, past, present, and future. Your paper should be three to five pages long, outside of the title and reference page. Sure. Loads of thick volumes have been written on similar topics, but my paper with this vastly broad topic should be three to five pages? Who thinks of these things? Sometimes ...

After four classes at Ashford University, you may have noticed I don't blog every day. I am zapped by the time I complete both jobs and my classwork. This is not a "log in a couple of times a week, write drivel and get a degree" program. I am challenged every day by my professor and my peers. After four classes, I cannot imagine ...

Even though this is about my day job and not Ashford University, it relates to communication studies in general. If you develop a work tool, make sure the people who are going to use it get to "test drive" it before you make it permanent. I use a database that was developed nationally. Everyone in my position must use it, but it ...

Jennifer Yane once said "I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." That's how I've felt lately. Too much work, too much reading, too many projects. At the end of a day, there's another one waiting, but I haven't finished this one yet. I think my literature book may be to blame for ...

Last week, I was on the road, accompanying my husband at a national conference in Memphis. Talk about economic devastation. I think 60 percent of the buildings in the downtown are empty. The city was very happy to see 2,500+ tourists in their town. Learned a lot about service to one's community. If you are truly interested in making a ...

[19-year-old dyes hair blue. No earrings or tattoos yet. We now return you to your regular programming.] Out with the old, in with the new. Sociology ended yesterday, although I'm still waiting for grades from a professor who is being worked over by the storms in Atlanta. Today starts my literature class. I love to read. I started ...

Have you ever heard that phrase "hurry up and wait"? It refers to places that make you rush to an appointment, then wait on something: a doctor, another procedure, something. Time is a gift for many of us who are trying to work and attend college. We enjoy moments with our family and wish they could go on forever. We multitask. We ...

The sad thing about online classes, unlike a regional college campus, is once the class is over, you are unlikely to ever connect with your classmates again. OK, I'll admit I am not going to be sad about never emailing or discussing topics with some classmates. However, this has been the best class yet for discussion. People ...

A Chinese proverb goes like this: "Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Involve me, I’ll understand." Too much of education is show and tell. I took my son to dinner last night, just the two of us. Dad is out of state, so it was good "face time" for the two of us. We had dinner and then came home and caught up on ...

I can't believe the furor of the past week over a seated President wanting to address the schoolchildren of the nation. My little conservative area managed to keep students in almost every school from watching the short address. If my child was still in school, I would have pulled him that day and made him watch the speech. Am I an Obama ...