Midlife in College

Weeks 60 through 62 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

School’s out for summer!

A couple of weeks ago I finished up my latest course. It was the first course since starting back to school in 2014 that I did not lose a single point in grading. It is also the only time since I started that I have had a bit of a break. It is hard to believe that I have been enrolled in a course every single term for the last seven years!

This break could not have come at a better time. As I type this, I am using one hand because last weekend I almost cut my index finger off at the base of my left hand. It has been a scary week and hopefully, the surgery that I had on Wednesday will fix everything and I will be back and ready to go when classes start in about five weeks.

The injury also means that I will miss the much anticipated executive leadership expedition but the folks at NOLS were very understanding and accommodating and allowed me to move my spot to next year.

All that being said, I am happy with my progress this term with my research project. I wrote a pretty good proposal and received great feedback from my professor. I hope to use this as my final dissertation project and look forward to seeing where the research takes me.

A lot of you have expressed interest in reading the final paper. As always, I have attached it below.

Also, Michele is starting her journey this week too and she is very excited! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

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Weeks 57 through 59 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

It is hard to believe that another term is almost done. This has been a tough one. I am knee-deep into my strategic management of family-run firms proposal project and this week the methodology section is due. I am looking forward to being finished with this class and then off of school until late August. I need a break but there is still a lot going on including the weeklong backpacking expedition for executive leadership in Wyoming in August. So, no break from school, really.

Also, Michele is starting her journey this week too and she is very excited! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

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Week 51 of approximately 186 is in the books in my doctorate program.

This week we are looking at spiritual risk in the literature. This is a tough topic for me because I am not overly religious. Our task was to find one religious character in the books 1 & 2 Kings and I chose Elijah. If you don’t know much about him it is an interesting read, no matter your persuasion.

Coming up next week is a massive paper on the same topic. I believe I will choose Solomon. He is a little easier to find articles on in the scholarly literature.

To read the paper:

Also, Michele is starting her journey this week too and she is very excited! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.