Six months ago I retired after forty years of nursing practice. One of the things I was told when I retired was that I would get bored within three months.
Uh.
No.
As I told a former co-worker, I'm busier now than when I was working. The difference is that I'm doing what interests me, what...
The title of this blog is iamcuri.us. That title was chosen to reflect the many and sundry interests that I have and the drive I have to explore new ideas and to learn new things. While I think some of my posts here have reflected that, others seems to skew in specific directions that seem to narr...
Had someone told me on the day of my high school graduation in 1977 that I would one day be an academic, in possession of a doctoral degree and teaching at the university level, I'd have warned them that whatever they were smoking was muddling their brain. Yet, here I am, forty years later, in posse...
I love to read and love to learn, so it is no suprise that one of my favorite pastimes is to wander through bookstores. I love perusing the titles, skimming a few pages of those that interest me and maybe marking a few to add to my reading list. It's a habit I developed probably thirty years ago.
O...
Virtually all businesses today are concerned about how the public perceives them. They recognize -- and rightfully so, in my opinion -- that customers who have a positive experience, who receive great service, or receive quality, tasty foods are more likely to be repeat customers. They also know t...
Throughout my junior high years I was a huge science fiction fan. One of my favorite authors of the time was Isaac Asimov. I was quite surprised to learn that Asimov not only wrote science fiction but had also penned books, short stories, and essays that ranged from religion (Guide to the Bible),...
For the past year or so my manager has
been after me to move into a management role. I managed to avoid doing so until
fairly recently, using my work on my doctorate as an excuse for not really
having the time to take on all the work of learning the role, learning the
courses I would manage and...
I have always been a curious person. I'm the kid that took toys apart to see how they worked (and was sometimes able to put them back together again, too!) I was the kid that enjoyed reading the WorldBook Encyclopedia because, well, just because. Learning about different stuff fascinated me. Even...