Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s an example of how I helped others to learn using a visual…..read on please! To prepare for a presentation titled Weight Management Techniques for my Personal & Consumer Health course at ISU in November of 1993, I visited my local Fareway grocery store meat man down the street. He happily turned over five pounds… Continue reading How the Past Has Brought Me to The Present! Part 13
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How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 12
Reading Time: 3 minutesI continue to blog about recollections while attending Iowa State University in the mid-1990s. Seems like yesterday I was on campus, but alas, time has taken us all much into the future…and it is fun to have fond memories. In the Spring of 1993, I took 12 credits. The courses were: Legal Environment of Business, Business… Continue reading How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 12
How My Past Has Brought Me to The Present! Part 11
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was really enjoying my coursework at Iowa State University. I took anywhere from 12-19 credits per semester. I was hitting the books hard, studying constantly, and commuting back and forth to Ames. Even on occasion making the trip twice in one day – I had a couple of night classes. Go Clones! For any… Continue reading How My Past Has Brought Me to The Present! Part 11
How My Past Has Brought Me to The Present! Max the Manx, Something New and The Flood! Part 10
Reading Time: 4 minutesOriginal blog publication Jan 23, 2012 @ 06:00 January 1993. All is going well, traveling back and forth to ISU, learning, raising a child, enjoying married life and having my lovable cat Max (the Manx at my side.) Max Then once upon a time, Randy and I started to get an idea and started to… Continue reading How My Past Has Brought Me to The Present! Max the Manx, Something New and The Flood! Part 10
How My Past Has Brought Me to the Present! Career and School, More of Both! Part 9
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs touched on in my last post, I was employed through Interim Personnel (now called Spherion Staffing) and was placed at CorVel Corporation. Initially, it was just me and the newly transplanted branch manager (Scott). I provided administrative secretarial services to him while he marketed the company, got the office up and running, and hired… Continue reading How My Past Has Brought Me to the Present! Career and School, More of Both! Part 9
How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 8
Reading Time: 3 minutesI enrolled again at Des Moines Area Community College in Spring 1990. I had already taken courses in the Fall of 1986-87 and 1987-88. Over a couple years’ times, I took many courses (at the Ankeny campus and the Urban campus) and graduated in 1992 with an Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts. DMACC is an… Continue reading How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 8
How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 7
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn January 1991, my transfer went through and I moved westward to the State Historical Building 600 East Locust Des Moines Iowa. It was a beautiful new facility (officially opened by the Department of Cultural Affairs on Dec. 11, 1987) and I wanted to work there! I worked for the State Historical Society of Iowa… Continue reading How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 7
How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 6
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter a healthy period of time working for the Disability Determination Services Bureau (and getting really good at chair dancing – admit it, if you’ve worked in an office, you’ve done it) I decided to go for a change. I put in for a transfer to the Department of Education and moved from the Jessie… Continue reading How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 6
How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 5
Reading Time: 3 minutesContinuing on from my post titled How My Past has Brought Me to The Present – as a Rehab Counselor! Part 4 I started working for the State of Iowa as a Clerk Typist III-IV at the Disability Determination Services Bureau (DDSB) in 1987. Disability Determination Services are state agencies funded by the United States Federal Government.… Continue reading How My Past has Brought Me to The Present! Part 5