1. What’s a place in the U.S. that you want to go but haven’t gotten to yet?
San Diego, La Jolla especially for some nice mellow beach time.
2. What’s a piece of life advice you have been given that you not only have never forgotten, but you share with those younger than you?
At work, keep your head down, do the work, and don’t complain. That will do more to build your brand than any other “hack” you can imagine to get the boss’s attention.
3. What is your favorite word?
Lugubrious.
4. What is your least favorite word?
Commentated. There is no worldly need for that word.
5. What’s the most useless piece of information you’ve memorized?
My childhood home phone number. Some version or other of that number has been stuck in my head since I was 6 years old.
1) The Northeast during the fall for the changing colors of the leaves.
2) Remember what you didn’t like about how you were treated at work by others, especially bosses, and don’t do that when you become a leader. So many people learn bad habits that they didn’t like coming up in the professional life and then they just keep on doing it to others. We may become our parents, but we don’t have to become our bad bosses.
3) Cool.
4) Woke (in its perverted meaning of today).
5) Most of my elementary school teachers, especially my first grade teacher, Ms. Borup.
1. Alabama. Hear me out. Specifically I’d like to check out the music scene in Muscle Shoals, walk the Petit bridge in Selma, and visit the Legacy Museum (which focuses on the history of lynching). I think it’s a pilgrimage that all pious liberals should make. “Oh, you haven’t walked the bridge? Apparently you don’t care about history.”
2. A visiting professor taught me these two lessons, both of which stuck with me forever.
First, when asked “What do you want to be when you grow up,” the correct answer for some of us is “Why grow up?”
The second is that if life offers you a choice between two perfectly acceptable alternatives, ask if you can have both. The failure to do so costs us so many opportunities.
3. Poignant. One’s ability to pronounce it correctly is an excellent litmus test.
4. No.
5. The books of the bible. Only useful for showing up Christians at their own game.
1) Alaska, not the roughing it kind but more the bougie catered type trip.
2) You are someone. Whenever you look at some situation, IE: trash on the ground and you think someone should really pick that up. Congratulations, you’re someone.
3) Thong.
4) irregardless
5) Red dawn was the first PG-13 movie