diving a little deeper

April 4, 2009 5 comments

welcome back to forge. as i read back over my previous posts to forge, i see how they are both introductions of a sort. i’m recognizing that i’m inclined to keep things light…yet i’m dying to dive in to what’s deep. i love to get below the surface…talk about what really drives a person; find [...]

contest: dwelling richly

April 1, 2009 2 comments

i recently had a conversation with a prospective tenant who used to run her own marketing company. she loved our take on property management but she expressed that the word dwell has negative connotations for most people. i was confused until she reminded me of the saying “to dwell on something” which certainly sends most [...]

let’s shake things up

December 27, 2008 1 comment

let’s go back to small town chemistry 101. we were each given a beaker containing an unknown substance. our job was to heat it, centrifuge it, shake it, and sometimes even blow it up…all with a keen eye watching for clues of how our substance responded. was there a change in texture, color, smell, feel? those changes were [...]

chemistry 101

December 27, 2008 No comments yet

imagine the scene. high school chemistry class in a small town. the teacher had already retired but was so good the school didn’t want to lose him, so they contracted him back for another year. i’m not sure if all those years of chemistry experiments had gone to his head but our experiments that year [...]