In the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen stories on the news that make me question the sanity of people. No, I’m not talking breaking stories of national significance. I’m talking about the people who pitched tents so they could be first in line to shell out $1000 for a new phone. It’s a phone!  And I thought, you couldn’t pay me enough to do that. Then there were the Michigan State University students who camped out so they could get tickets to the student section at the basketball games. I Continue Reading

Math and I have never been friends. The first evidence of this was when I was introduced to story problems. If Train A leaves the station at 7:00 AM and travels 65 miles per hour, and Train B leaves at 9:00 AM and travels 80 miles per hour, which train would you take if you wanted to sleep later in the morning?  Truthfully, these problems were about that logical to me. This struggle followed me through high school and into college when I was making a career decision. For the first three Continue Reading

Every week now for months, it seems like there is news of a new cyber hacking scandal. Someone or a group (or a country?) loves to wreak havoc with the theft of our personal data. One week, I received a letter from my health-care system telling me my information may be compromised in a system-wide attack. No problem. They referred me to Equifax for credit monitoring. No kidding - glad I'm a procrastinator. Well, I have some breaking news. It appears there’s been a hack into our weather system Continue Reading