Poetry and Pups

Although I'm more of a cat person now, we had dachshunds when I was a kid. Here's a poem to honor those childhood "weiners."

BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS GLADNESS

There was a little dachshund once,

So long he had no notion,

The time it took from head to foot

To register emotion.

And so it was that when his face

Was filled with tears and sadness,

His little tail kept wagging on

Because of previous gladness.

--Anonymous

Shermie's very first blog!

And this is a whole new world! Not a totally comfortable one either. But, let's see how this goes--

7 1/2 rules for successful lifelong learning:

Easiest:

• Accept responsibility for your own learning--park my butt in the seat, put in the time. It's a given.
• Teach/mentor others--once I understand it myself, showing someone else just reinforces the original lessons.
• Play!--enough said.

Hardest:

• Use technology to your advantage--one of the reasons for doing this to begin with. I didn't grow up with computers, so anything I can learn has to be helpful.
• View problems as a challenge, not a crisis--very difficult when technology is involved. Am I going to erase something? Am I going to crash the system???
• Begin with an end in mind/set goals--sometimes it's more the "dive-in-headfirst-and-see-what-happens-later" technique. This time there are small goals: to learn what blogging is, and to be able to explain it to my mother when she starts navigating the new library software.

Shermie over and out--