Cheers to 🌎cultural🌏 openness ~ including to food and drink!
My spot in the lower 🏖Valley🏝 now offers 🍢boba!
🍜Pho #1🍲 in Harlingen ~ White Chocolate🍨
I also hit up my former neck of the woods for more 🍡bubble tea!
🍧Tea Rush Express🍱 ~ 🎂Red Velvet🍰 with 🍓Strawberry🍥 Jelly (which matches my 💅🏽mani🎨 dedicated to my 🌹Lola Rosa🌷 the Belated 🎈Bday🎁 Girl)
^– For your bubbly entertainment c/o fellow foodies Fung Bros –^
Last week, my speech students🎤 delivered their cultural reports!
Some offered us 🎁giveaways!
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” ~ Vince Lombardi 🏈
That was a quote from a clue that appeared on today’s episode of Double Jeopardy! 📺
M is for …
March Madness * Motivational * Men’s Basketball * Magnificent Coach = Mike Krzyzewski
Coach K aims high: one and done, son! ☝️
The commentators for tonight’s close [insert here: 💅nail-biting😁, white-knuckling👊, edge-of-your-seat💺, screaming-when-you’ve-already-lost your-voice😱] NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball🏀 Championship described Coach K as magnificent.
A is for: Ability to Adapt and Adjust
These analysts also attributed this to Coach K.
Coach K now can count his NCAA championship titles on one full hand 👋
Now, more than ever, I’m confident that I chose the right topic for my doctoral🎓 dissertation📜 research because this amazing man was the one who affirmed it more in the first place and has served as a driving force behind my continued studies!
Coach K won five by five! 🙌
Aside from Coach K’s coaching leadership on the court and in the locker room for both college and pro ball that I’ve observed and studied*, I’ve admired him for the following reasons in which I can relate:
What a way for this senior to wrap up his college ball career! 👊
I must update my dissertation introduction, in which I mentioned that Coach K has led his Duke Blue Devils to four NCAA titles🏆 –> I now can revise it to FIVE!!!
Also, my 😸Double A-Teammates😻 deserve credit as my good luck🍀 charms toward this championship because during most of the game when the Wisconsin Badgers led, I was working on school💻, and when I tuned in more during crunch and clutch time⏰, they joined me to cheer📢 on the young Devs that included majority freshmen in the starting line-up!
YES, my Snow Angels go for the Blue Devils!
Lastly, I wish to point out that the very first paper that I wrote for my doctoral coursework compared the coaching styles of Coach K and his West Point coach, Bobby Knight ~ I’m proud that I aced🃏 it back then and proud of this team this whole season and tonight! 🌠
For the love of the team and the love of the game! 💝
*For more reasons why Coach K has the winning leadership recipe that champions both high performance and satisfaction, please read his books📚 and these studies📑 that I cited about him and Coach Knight, a.k.a. The General:
My Concept Map Bibliography (LEAD 9310, Oct. 21, 2008)
Nothing but net! 🏀
Happy Birthday to Yours Truly!!!
What better way to ring in my special day☼ than to celebrate at Church†? I began my birthday at the Chapel for my Adoration hour. Then Father Bob blessed♣ me and my gifts from my special friends, Evie, Maggie and Joe.♥ ♪They even sang Happy Birthday♫
GOD is Great!!!
PTL for Praise The LORD * People that LOVE * Pretty Tough Lady
Since I haven’t posted that much in the past couple of years, I’d like to share with you my Season’s Greetings* to give you the scoop and keep you in the loop.
* 2011
* 2012
While many changes have taken place during this time, I’m still the same GOD-loving person † with a BiG heart ♥ who wishes to give the gifts with which He’s blessed me to do good.
Now that I’m All But Dissertation on my Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from Our Lady of the Lake University, I’ve taken a sabbatical from teaching for my research yet am carrying on another passion: writing – so here are my biography and the educational articles that I’ve recently published:
Another passion that I still maintain is advocating worthy causes through worthy events, including:
Unfortunately, there have been losses along the way, during just these first few months this year alone, so I believe that their souls are looking down on us with love from Heaven above:
Luckily, I had the pleasure of rooting on my Dallas Mavericks both at home in the American Airlines Center and on the road this past season, and although they didn’t advance to the NBA playoffs, I’m still a MFFL!
I’ve also traveled quite a bit, so here’s a list of my most memorable trips:
Despite my limited updates, I feel compelled to impart to anyone who’s reading this entry that even if we can’t fit in everything that we want to include in our lives, let’s make the most of the time that we have with those who we love. Whether or not you’re a believer, the world is so much bigger than us to only serve ourselves. I for one, love GOD & therefore love His people, who are more important than just me as 1 person. Lately, I’ve been spending time with special loves – and of course, my Double A-Team, who I’m happy to report are in pretty kitty purr-fect condition – for whom I’m grateful are in my life.
The Elaine Dispo Journal 