Imagine it’s late 1991. You’re sitting in the driver’s seat of your used Mazda RX-7 in the 7-Eleven parking lot, sucking on the straw of your Big Gulp filled with ice cold Orange Crush, which you bought to calm yourself down after you accidentally dropped your Queensrÿche Empire cassette on the ground and clumsily trod … Continue reading A Very Gen X Post About MAPS

This is a continuation of our special AUA: IME Supporter Edition from earlier this week. Click here to view Part 1. As a reminder, if you have an issue (professional or personal) you would like help with, click here to submit your question(s). We like offering advice and people seem to enjoy hearing our opinions (we … Continue reading Ask Us Anything: IME Supporter Edition (Part 2)

It’s time for the March edition of Ask Us Anything, and we are doing things a little differently this time around. Last month at the 2026 Alliance Annual Conference, I moderated a session called A Method to Our Madness: The Strategy Behind Grant Review with a panel of four other grant supporters: Amanda Kaczerski, Annette … Continue reading Ask Us Anything: IME Supporter Edition (Part 1)

Top 5 Reasons to Move the Date of CMEpalooza Spring from Wednesday, April 22 to Wednesday, April 29 5. The Philadelphia Phillies have a day game against the despicable New York Mets on April 22, and Scott and Derek have to be available for in-person booing 4. Scott realized Nick at Nite is running an … Continue reading ***DATE CHANGE*** CMEpalooza Spring Changed to April 29!

I like to cook. I really like to cook. I often tell people with total candor that if I had learned to cook when I was younger (like most teenaged boys, about the best I could do was heat up a can of soup until I went to college), I think I would have tried to … Continue reading Do More of What You Like (and Less of What You Don’t)