I love teaching. I often see with an educator’s eyes. As a parent, my style tends toward the coach or teacher. In my career in the corporate world, I still find opportunities to teach. I designed and ran a series of spreadsheet trainings. We had a lot of staff who didn’t have any background or experience with it. I wanted to help them. One of the first slides looked like this: "A lot of people look at Excel, and this is what they see,” I told them. “But that’s not what Excel really looks like. It looks like this:” “It’s a toolbox. There are a lot of nice tools you can use. There are some tools you will not learn how to use. That doesn’t really matter. Find one tool, learn to use it, and then try another.” I was beginning my spreadsheet training with a statement about optimism. I knew some of them were pretty intimidated by the program. I was always a learning optimist. When I sat in the stacks at Briggs Library during my college days, I could read difficult material
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