Welcome to Webster University’s Faculty blog.  It’s an exciting way to reach out to the community, and an adventure in technology for a group of professors who remember typewriters.  I am Nicki Nance, Faculty Coordinator and the first Boom Blogger to arrive.  I am grateful for the opportunity to share the ruminations of the committee that meets in my head.  It’s a good thing that, like a lot of Baby Boomers, I need less sleep than ever. 

 The committee meetings in my head haven’t always been productive.  The first time retirement planning was on the agenda the best they could come up with required me to work ten years past my death to afford my life.  Other meetings were more analytic than strategic, reworking why things were the way they were.  The answers, though brilliant, were useless.  The past doesn’t get any better. 

So, inspired by Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich,” I decided that committee membership should be by invitation only.   My favorite mentors are usually in attendance.   If I focus, I know how my best supervisor, professor or colleague would direct me in business decisions.   My late father always had wonderful humor and a favorable opinion of me, so he is invited for my existential enjoyment.  The possibilities are endless.  I can have Dirty Harry and Harry Potter at the same table if I choose.

And, my waking hours are not only longer.  They are richer.  I see most people as potential committee members.  Most everyone has something I might value sometime -- courage, grace, whimsy – all for the taking, and at no loss to the original owner, who might be you if you blog along.  Who’s meeting in your head?