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Against the backdrop of the waves.
Posted on September 10, 2025 1 Comment
10 September 2025 It’s been over a month since we moved to Thailand for my sabbatical, and it’s taken about that long for me to catch up on everything that got away from me during a hectic spring and summer. My term as the Associate Director of the School of Leadership and Human Resource Development […]
New eyes
Posted on March 9, 2025 1 Comment
March 9, 2025 When the wheels touched down in Baton Rouge on the evening of February 22nd, it marked my return from my second trip to DC in 2025. I had also been to Southeast Asia twice since the year began. While travel can bequeath “new eyes,” as Marcel Proust famously wrote, it can also […]
A Year’s Worth of Life in August through October
Posted on December 1, 2024 1 Comment
1 December 2024 I spent most of the last post on work-related updates. This will likely have some of those as well. But the last 5 months have included a lot of personal things. This is a long post, so you’ll probably want to skip through, or not read it at all, but I want […]
A place to go when you’re broken
Posted on April 30, 2023 Leave a Comment
30 April 2023 When I was in college, I broke my collarbone playing ultimate frisbee. The quad where we played pickup on Fridays was riddled with Whitworth’s pine trees; the cross-cutting sidewalks served as end zones. People often think I broke it by running into a tree but actually it happened when another player fell […]
Spending a few seconds this morning being mindful and grateful
Posted on March 30, 2023 1 Comment
March 30, 2023 It’s an ongoing joke between Khai and me that whenever I travel, I enthusiastically remark, “I would love to live here!” Notable recent examples include Bangkok, Bristol, and Boothbay. On the one hand, my comment is an expression of the honeymoon phase of travel, where I am easily biased toward novelty. On […]
From Writing to Reflecting
Posted on May 24, 2021 1 Comment
21 May 2021 I’ve been using the Monk Manual for my daily organizer (you got me, Instagram ads). Every day it asks what habit I’m focusing on. This spring I put “write” nearly every day as I had several large research deadlines including my book manuscript. Most mornings I woke up at 5:30 AM and […]
Movement is life. Running my first 50-miler.
Posted on December 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
December 19, 2016 This year I went from playing frisbee a couple times a week to running a 5o-mile race. Here’s the story along with a few reflections on the keys to discovering a love of running. In January, I somewhat precariously decided to run a marathon as my New Year’s resolution. Knowing full well that […]
Motorcycle Trip Through Cambodia – Blog + Video
Posted on January 22, 2016 Leave a Comment
January 22, 2016 This post doesn’t relate exactly to human and organizational learning but I thought I would share this on my blog. I finally got around to editing the nearly five hours of video footage from my motorcycle trip through Cambodia in May 2014. My friend Davor and I went to Cambodia for two […]
Oliver S. Crocco 