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My CFO (me) was legitimately concerned about how much of our retained earnings we chewed through in April.
Reason number one: There were five Fridays in April, so there were five payrolls. That’s a real budget killer!
Reason number two: I owed some taxes. Good old April.
Read MoreIt's ironic that, as I work with adolescents to prepare them for future education and their eventual career, they may well be headed for a field or profession that doesn't even exist right now.
Most of what I do for a living was beyond my imagination when I was thirteen, whether because technology had not yet made it possible or simply because of my own ignorance of the existing possibilities.
Read MoreAround March of each year, there's a crop of eighth graders who think that they aren't learning anything.
They are bored and frustrated with their teachers, classmates, and schoolwork. In our tiny homeschool program, they have the luxury of believing that they would feel differently if they went to a traditional public school.
They say that they're ready for high school and just want to be there already. They don't know that they're exactly where they should be.
Read MoreI used to teach a kid who would ask a question and then offer a big, showy “Ahhhhh!” or “Ohhhhhh!” when she heard the answer.
It took me a while to figure out that she was usually faking it. Either she wasn’t truly interested in the answer, or was afraid she would look stupid if she needed more than one quick explanation. Either way, she didn’t really get it. She wasn’t really engaging with me or whatever I was teaching—she just wanted to make it look like she was doing so.
Read MoreWhen I was a young musician, I was fully steeped in the twentieth century idea of being “discovered” by a record company executive.
To a degree, that was still how things worked back then—and even today. However, they never really worked that way anyway. If you want to “make it,” you have to already have the look or sound that the industry was seeking. The stories of being plucked from obscurity make their way around the world because they are ridiculous fairy tales, not business as usual.
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