Life As Theory

I suppose the best place to start a blog is in the beginning, with an introduction. My name is Karen. I'm a mother, a wife, an employee, and a student. I have a 16 month old son, I've been married to his father for five years this April, I am an IRS Section 125 Cafeteria Plan Manager for a Third Party Administrator, and I am a Junior Public Administration major at a local university in my "spare" time. I'm also an amateur artist.

In the last year or two, I've been getting more involved with my industry, more interested in politics, and I've started putting myself out there with my art a bit. I decided a blog in which I could muse on these subjects and also share some of my ideas would be a good outlet for me.

I'm currently enrolled in a class called Organizational Behavior Theory. It's a study of behavior within organizations. Why people act they way they do and what can be done about it. It's very management oriented and very abstract in concept. This is not a class where they give you x and y and ask you to find z. It's more like they give you all 26 letters in the alphabet, tell you that the organization is having trouble finding the right words and which words they've tried-and then ask you to propose some words!

I hope to do something similar with my blog. To take a concept I've heard in the radio or seen on TV and analyze and look at it. To take an issue at work (without divulging too much of course!) and look at WHY it happened and if there's anything I can do about it. I also hope I can live out some of my ideas, some of my theories.I hope to learn some and maybe share some wisdom. I hope to have some readers but if not at least I can learn a little more in my life as theory.