I started this last thing I have done in several categories because it seemed a fun way to help people keep track of typical things I do. It is a way to spark conversation and is excellent for student scavenger hunts. So, if anyone is looking for gift ideas, below are some ideas.
Last books read:
- With my disability, I read 122 books in 2023 and 2024maccordig to Kindle. The books are space operas and post-apocalyptic fiction.
- What Color is Your Parachute 2022 – Richard Bolles and Katharine Brooks
- The Busy Professor: Ten Easy Time Management Steps for Getting Your Academic Life Under Control – Timothy Slater
- Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization – Scott Mautz
- Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration – Keith Ferrazzi and Noel Weyrich
- Create an Engaging Syllabus: A Concise, 7-Step Guide for Professors – Norman ‘Eng
- The Department Chair Field Manual: A Primer for Academic Leadership – Don Chu
- Ungrading – Susan Blum
- The Future of Education – Hezki Arieli
- The Busy Professor – Timothy Slater
- Guide to Rethinking Interviews – Richard Bolles
- Guide to Rethinking Resumes – Richard Bolles
- What Color is Your Parachute for Retirement – John Nelson and Richard Bolles
- Dare to Lead – Brene Brown
- Facilitating a Collegial Department in Higher Education – Robert Cipriano
- The No Asshole Rule – Robert Sutton
- Virtual Team Success – Darleen DeRosa and richard Lepsinger
- Leading Project Teams – Anthony Cobb
- Get Agile – Pieter Jongerius
- A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom – Paul Baepler et al
- the Coddling of the American Mind – Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Assessing Student Learning – Assessing Suskie
- The New Education – Cathy Davidson
- Undergraduate Capstone Courses – Robert Hauhart and Jon Grahe
- Teaching What You Don’t Know – Therese Huston
Last movies and television:
- Heartland
- Sharpe Series
- Battlestar Galactica
- Fallout
- The West Wing
- Dune !
- Dune II
- Greyhound
- The Adam Project
- Death on the Nile
- Invasion
- Wheel of Time
- Discovery of Witches
- Foundation
- Cinderella
- The Matrix Resurrection
- In the Heights
- The Tomorrow War
- Zombieland Double Tap
- The secret: dare to dream
- The map of tiny perfect things
Trips:
Trips Scheduled:
- TBA – plans change – working on purchasing a travel trailer and pickup to haul it.
Trips Taken:
- Italy (Rome), Greece, and Iceland (2019)
- New Zealand and Australia (2018)
- Bahamas (2018)
- Ireland (2017)
- Las Vegas (November 2015)
- Orlando (May 2015)
- Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (March 2015)
- Ireland (May 2014)
- New Zealand and Australia (June 2013)
- Utah (May 2013)
- Barbados (May 2013)
Coffee Mugs
- Drawn to Life – Cirque Du Soleil/Disney
- Jekyll Island
- Amelia Island
- Ovo – Cirque Du Soleil
- Luzia – Cirque Du Soleil
Last music purchased
- Hollywood Park – Airborne Toxic Event
- Look Long – Indigo Girls
- III – The lumineers
- Such Pretty Forks in the Road – Alanis Morissette
- EMD 2019 – multiple artists
- Melodrama – Lorde