In August 1986 I started school. I was 2 1/2 years old, and I think my mother figured it was time for me to get out of the house and see the world, or at least the preschool at Thoreau Park Elementary School. In a few short months, that will have been 30 years ago.… Continue reading Seasonality
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How Are You Doing?
Last week I was in New Orleans with students for a conference, as I mentioned in my last post. However I left out one of my encounters from that night – a conversation I had with a man named Koolio, which started over a simple question: “How are you doing?”
Defying Classification
I’m writing this post, the first in over a month (my bad!) from a hotel room in New Orleans. I’m down here for the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) conference, having brought with me 5 of my undergraduate students from Delta State. The conference seems to be having the desired effect – students are excited to… Continue reading Defying Classification
I realize that I Sometimes Comment Selfishly
Recently I’ve found myself writing comments on other people’s posts and then deciding at the last moment not to post them. Obviously it’s a good idea to always read over what you intend to say before you say it, and it’s usually at that point that I realize that what I’m about to say isn’t… Continue reading I realize that I Sometimes Comment Selfishly
8 Amazing Rules You Can Apply Now To Make Your Posts Blow Up on Social Media!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Thanks to the always enlightening Judie Stanford for posting this pic – I couldn’t resist making a post just to try out the headline formula.https://blog.bufferapp.com/headline-formulas?utm_content=buffer31834&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Never Been Said
I did a Google search today for the phrase “my relationship with my wife is the easiest thing in my life”, and this is what I got: Google is a full text search engine, which means that, apparently, according to Google, no one has ever said that phrase before. In my experience, when you are… Continue reading Never Been Said
Is Blogo the New Windows Live Writer
Back in the day (“the day” being 5 years ago), I used to use Windows Live Writer to compose updates for my blog(s). Loved it. Then I switched to a Mac, and Microsoft more or less abandoned Windows Live Writer. Now I’m trying a new piece of desktop software for blogging named Blogo. We’ll see if… Continue reading Is Blogo the New Windows Live Writer
Publishing to Facebook?!?
For reasons I’ll never understand, the WordPress Jetpack social plugin that’s supposed to be able to publish my stuff everywhere (i.e. FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Google+) sometimes doesn’t want to publish it to the network I get 70% of my traffic from: Facebook. Not sure what that is, but I’m back to the old grind of… Continue reading Publishing to Facebook?!?
But It Looks Like a Heart
Earlier this month, Karey & I celebrated the 15th anniversary of the first time we met in person (We met online before it was cool – actually it was still heavily stigmatized!) In honor of that, I’ll post this anecdote. A few months ago we were driving on an epic road trip and stopped at a… Continue reading But It Looks Like a Heart
Happy 10th Anniversary to JonWestfall.Com
A little over 10 years ago, on March 24, 2004, I posted the first entry on my LiveJournal blog – what would eventually become JonWestfall.com (I actually mentioned in that post that I was trying to figure out how to show the RSS feed from my LiveJournal blog to the relatively static homepage of JonWestfall.Com).… Continue reading Happy 10th Anniversary to JonWestfall.Com