No MP3 or iPOD.... I really enjoy the time to think and solve problems...not necessarily all about the dogs or the run either...I spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the work I do. I think about teaching styles, student interactions, understanding how teams work, grow, succeed together, what it means to be a leader, how the quality of the relationships we have with the folks we work with and for have an enormous impact on what we can accomplish. As for comfort items...or inspiration...my grandmother gave me a medal that my great-grandmother had blessed for my grandfather and my grandfather's Drivers license (its really about one license more that he should of had
) I also had running through my head the many songs/lyrics that my wife and I had been singing (Are you looking at me...Pal) (Inside joke for Tiff)
work hard. play harder.