- Making apple crisp with my wife for friends
- Good conversation and catching up with friends over dinner
- Good meeting with student
- Meeting a member of the band I had not met before
- Borrowing a piece of equipment from a colleague
- Getting a key to a room I will need in the future
- Harvesting carrots from our garden for my lunch
- Making bison curry with my wife
- Learning more about my family history
- Difficult but important conversation with a friend
- Helping a student improve her talk
- Helping a student who randomly wandered into my office with his homework
- Biking a part of the Rapid City bike trail I had not before
- Learning about Lakota culture at the latest Rapid City Community Conversation
- A staff member who taught me the beginning of how to use the school’s financial monitoring software for my grant
- Time to rest and recover while I was sick
- Complements on my teaching from one of my students
- Getting everything packed for my trip
- My wife coming to my rescue after I locked my key in the van
- A good discussion of stories and facts at The Well
- Cute rabbit outside the Physics building
What I Have Read in 2017
Books I am Reading
To Read Next
Dr. Stephen Sekula- Bob on Books
- Jackie Lea Sommers
- Altered Faces
- Politifact
Networked Blogs
