NCI v CWA Op-Ed Series This is the third of a six-part series of articles (click for direct link to Part 1) which will be published one a day for this next week. It's the story of my yearlong experience as an employee of the National Captioning Institute (NCI), a live television caption provider. During... Continue Reading →
NCI v CWA: Part 2 of 6 – Learning the job but training is interrupted
NCI v CWA Op-Ed Series This is the second of a six-part series of articles (click for direct link to Part 1) which will be published one a day for this next week. It's the story of my yearlong experience as an employee of the National Captioning Institute (NCI), a live television caption provider. During that... Continue Reading →
NCI v CWA: Part 1 of 6 – Getting the Job’s Never Easy
NCI v CWA Op-Ed Series This is the first of a six-part series of articles, one every day for the next week. It's the story of my yearlong experience as an employee of the National Captioning Institute (NCI), a live television caption provider. During that challenging year (which started in October of 2015), I participated... Continue Reading →
NCI v CWA, an introduction to a six-part series
Introduction This is a six-part series of articles, one every day for the next week. It's the story of my yearlong experience as an employee of the National Captioning Institute (NCI), a live television caption provider. During that challenging year (which started in October of 2015), I participated in the attempts of some of my... Continue Reading →
How to watch my kids properly.
I’m reading a book about the art of watching American football called Take Your Eye Off the Ball. The author, Pat Kirwan, says that if you’re watching football by following the ball around, you’re missing the whole game. (Whoops, totally guilty of that.) It’s the opposite of what young athletes are taught, Kirwan admits, but... Continue Reading →
The art of handling criticism poorly.
Amy is absolutely horrible at taking criticism. Amy Bouzaglo was the co-owner (with her fire-tempered, enabling husband Samy) and head chef of (the now closed) Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, AZ. She became internet famous in 2013 for her outrageous behavior on her now infamous episode of Chef Gordon Ramsey’s show Hell’s Kitchen. Click to... Continue Reading →
Snowman or gingerbread man? A nice story about death.
An eight-year-old daughter and her father accidentally talked about death the other day. She and he were walking their dog Vincent around the neighborhood together. At one point, they started playing a game called Would you rather? During her turn, the daughter asked, “Would you rather be a snowman or a gingerbread man?” Before the... Continue Reading →
NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen’s inspirational combine 40-yard-dash
If you think the 40-yard-dash at the NFL combine is challenging, try running it in a business suit. That’s what 48-year-old NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen has done for the last 14 years for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. If you haven’t watched Eisen's 2018 attempt yet, check out the Giants.com video of his surprisingly smooth run... Continue Reading →
What’s YOUR Impossible?
https://youtu.be/sefscV3GvWM The opening shot of Lauren Woolstencroft’s Super Bowl Commercial shows her as an infant born with two half legs and one and a half arms. My first thought was, “That poor little thing.” Then, when the commercial tells us that the odds of her winning a gold medal are 1 in 997,500,000, it occurs... Continue Reading →
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