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My First Letter Home from USAFA

By Steve On May 12, 2013 · Add Comment · In Archives

While searching for a particular photo of my mother, I found a stash of letters from the ’70s, including the first letter home after I started Basic Cadet Training at the USAF Academy. This was written on July 4, 1972.

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2012 Year-End Review

By Steve On January 1, 2013 · 4 Comments · In Year-end Reviews
Half-a-Life in 2012

For the fourth time in the last 30 years, I put all my (dwindling) household goods into storage not knowing when, where, or in what state (of mind and residence) I’d be removing them.

The short straw in 2012 went to Grants, New Mexico, where since August I’ve been gainfully employed (for the first time since 2007) as Manager for Instructional Technology at the Grants campus extension of New Mexico State University. This [...]

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2011 Year-End Review

By Steve On January 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Year-end Reviews
What to say about 2011?

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A Crop of Enlightened Perspectives

By Steve On August 17, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Archives
from David Fairchild’s Memoirs, The World Was My Garden (1938)

[on his own home garden]  ”I was appalled by my abysmal ignorance of practical agriculture when I started to create my own home. I soon discovered that through all my years of association with professors of horticulture, agricultural colleges, and experiment stations, I had developed a blind spot towards the practical formulae of such an immensely simple thing as the making of a flower or vegetable garden. Marian, of course, depended [...]

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Quotes

By Steve On August 17, 2011 · Add Comment · In Archives
Quotes Pertaining to an Informed Perspective

Regarding Learning General Wit and Wisdom Excerpts from Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance Excerpts from Thoreau’s Walden From Mahatma Gandhi A Crop of Perspectives from David Fairchild’s The World Was My Garden

Learning

He who learns and learns and yet does not what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows. — ancient Persian proverb, quoted by Alfred Korzybski [...]

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Here’s Something About General Semantics

By Steve On August 16, 2011 · Add Comment · In Writing

A Primer for Making Sense of Your World, by Steve Stockdale

Available in eBook format (PDF) for immediate FREE download. FREE! ISBN 978-0-9824645-0-2; 290 pages. Accessible, well-written introduction to GS principles, plus more! Written from 13 years teaching experience. Filled with examples, demonstrations, and explanations; over 50 illustrations. Includes articles from the GS journal (ETC) and newspaper columns. Thirteen pages of Notes and Sources; Index of 270 names. Links to over 150 online video clips. Appropriate for all learners [...]
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What I Learned in 2000

By Steve On August 16, 2011 · Add Comment · In Archives
As we begin the year of HAL, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to recount a few of my “lessons learned” over the past 12 months. Your mileage may vary. Season as you go with chili. Don’t take your jeans right out of the dryer and tuck them under your chin to fold. Especially if they have those metal rivets. “If you can’t name it, you can’t use it.” – Helen Harkness I’m learning not to [...]
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Passages for Uncertain Career Journeys

By Steve On August 16, 2011 · Add Comment · In Writing

My friend and former career adviser Helen Harkness was asked to edit a special edition of a journal for career development professional in 2010. She invited me to submit an article/essay, which was accepted. The theme of the special edition was Mid Life Career Crisis: How chaos theory and positive psychology can help.

The edition was published and distributed in February 2011, although the cover unfortunately and mistakenly notes “Spring 2010.” I also was displeased with the production formatting of [...]

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National Workshop on General Semantics

By Steve On August 9, 2011 · Add Comment · In About Me, India

Reprinted with permission from: Centre for Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

 

        

Twelfth National Workshop Cognitive Language Skills for the 21st Century
3rd – 5th November 2007

A Report

One of the dominant concerns of contemporary social and political theory and one which has engaged if not captured the attention of theorizing since the beginning of the Enlightenment is the idea of human progress. Human progress, which may be broadly understood as such [...]

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He takes little at face value

By Steve On August 9, 2011 · Add Comment · In About Me

The head of the semantics institute takes little at face value

(Reprinted with permission of the author, DIANA KUNDE)

Sun, Nov. 5, 2005

Special to the Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH—What do you answer when your toddler asks, “What’s this?” What’s likely to follow when a politician begins a sentence with: “The fact of the matter is … ?”

And what do these questions have to do with one another?

Welcome to the world of Steve Stockdale, executive director [...]

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