by Roel Snieder | Dec 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Whenever we say something, whenever we meet somebody, whenever we go somewhere, we leave a trace in the sense that after our encounter we have changed something. That change may be obvious and lasting, for example when a person that we talked to has an aha-moment. But...
by Roel Snieder | Dec 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
This is what my daughter Julia asked me when we were preparing to run an ultra-marathon. I did not understand her question, and she explained that one can train at three levels: red, orange, and green. Training at the red level involves going all out, it is a...
by Roel Snieder | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
On a bike ride in Evergreen, Colorado, I encountered the elk shown in the picture next to the statue of Saint Francis of Assisi. This was an amazing encounter because Saint Francis is the patron of animals. I wanted to take a photo of this scene. Since I am clumsy...
by Roel Snieder | Nov 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
This is not a post about running as a physical activity, running is a metaphor for the way in which our life unfolds. We can run the course of our life in different ways, we can run from something, we can run in circles, or we can run to something. These are different...
by Roel Snieder | Nov 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Stacking firewood by placing logs on their side allows logs to dry because the water does not infiltrate along cut ends. The image shows the woodpile of one of my neighbors. Since I love stacking and splitting firewood, I was intrigued by her woodpile and asked why...
by Roel Snieder | Oct 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
I was a junior professor, stressed and working myself to exhaustion yet still feeling inadequate both at work and at home. So, when three students from my introductory programming course came to my office at the end of the semester with concerns about their grades, I...
