Baseball Coaches & Ice Cream
Pecky’s. I can barely remember that name, Pecky’s.
I googled it. In the gazillion possible places that google.com could find something it could only find two references to “Pecky’s” & “Schiller Park”, both on Facebook.
One was by a guy I graduated high school with. Having felt grateful that Paul Z kept the legacy of Pecky’s alive, I wrote him a thank you note.
Pecky’s & A “Player’s Coach”
Web Apps You Want To Know About, pt 1
Google’s new Chrome OS will use web apps exclusively. Whether you ever use Chrome OS or not you will want to know about some great convenient user-friendly web apps.
Over the next couple of days I will introduce you to some of my favorite web apps.
I love creating on Aviary. Mostly I’ve edited photos, but you can also create “logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more.”
Sometimes I mind-map when I am being creative. Bubbl.US offers online mind-mapping. Check it out next time you want your imagination visualized.
The Pandemic of Loneliness
While H1N1 dominates the media’s attention and ours, there is a far more devastating pandemic that never makes the nightly news: loneliness.
Every day I read texts, Facebook updates and listen while people express the pain of their loneliness.
Loneliness takes many forms. Longing to dress up for a party Jeanette sits alone on Halloween. Wishing and hoping that her phone would ring Debbie keeps her cell phone volume on “Outdoor” fearing that she might miss the one call that she might receive. While his lunch table mates laugh about the fun they had the night before David suffers in silence wishing that they would finally invite him to join them.
