Tina Lewis Rowe

Category: Life and Work

  • Bring a Unique Trainer and Presenter to Your Group: trowetraining@comcast.net

    When I say hello to a group before I teach about Law Enforcement Leadership, Strategic Patrolling, Police Promotional Preparation, or Church Safety and Security, I get a kick out of knowing that many are probably wondering, “What on earth can she teach me about this?” It doesn’t offend me, because I know by the time…

  • When You Really DO Know It All–Or At Least a Lot of It

    In 2010 I wrote about “The Curse of Knowledge”: When we forget what it was like to not know something. The sweet little boy in the photo is getting ready to graduate from high school soon–and still learning. I said it then and it is still true: The next time someone — a friend, coworker,…

  • “Let Them Eat Cake” and Other Ignorant Things We Say

                                                                     Marie Antoinette didn’t say “Let them eat cake.”  I know the quotation attributed to Marie Antoinette is in error and she almost certainly…

  • A Preparation Guide For The Assessment Center Method: Be Your Best Self

    Can You Be Yourself In Your Assessment Center? Someone who knows my thoughts about how to best prepare for an Assessment Center copied a review of my book from the Amazon site and sent it to me, indignant over how wrong he thought it was. The reviewer gave me five stars and essentially said my…

  • Pluto Has Been Waiting Patiently To Say, “Pluto (Hearts) Earth!”

    What is waiting for you? July 14, 2015 will always be a date in the history of NASA and an important date for astronomers and all of us who are interested in the cosmos.  New Horizons, the NASA space probe, planned since 1990 and launched in 2006, flew by Pluto, the small planet, one sixth…

  • Moving Forward–Really Moving Forward

    In the book and the movie, The Shining, by Stephen King, author Jack Torrance types constantly on his novel and becomes more deranged as time passes. When his wife looks at his manuscript, she is horrified to see page after page after page filled with the same sentence: All work and no play makes Jack…

  • Pain, Suffering and Discomfort: Five Principles That Can Be Adapted to Your Life

    If you are suffering from anything–pain, health problems, emotional turmoil, addictions or  disorders of any kind or personal or work problems that keep you awake and feeling out of control–you may have found that wishing for relief can become a constant background noise that is almost as distracting as the suffering. Today I read two…

  • 1964-Some Things Change and Some Stay the Same

    1964: Goldwater, Ann Margaret, The Beatles, Annette, Bill Holden and Jackie Kennedy Just about fifty years ago, this was a version of People magazine. *I wonder how far Annette thought she would go after she was engaged? And did she? *Why was William Holden stalked by death? (He was a favorite actor of mine, who…

  • Keeping the Fresh, New Feeling In Your Job

             That  Fresh, New Uniform Feeling In 1972 or so, women officers on the Denver Police Department were given navy blue shirts to replace the white Ship and Shore blouses we had worn with our skirts prior to that time. In a few months, the skirts changed to pants (men’s pants, which…

  • Monitor the Hackneyed Things You Repeat Repeatedly Over and Over Again, Excessively

    Hackneyed: A phrase or action that is used so many times it becomes commonplace and dull. My mother, Creola Kincaid Lewis, told me that her parents ordered her to stop making Egyptian-dancer hand gestures after she had done it dozens of times in one evening. Those hand gestures were popular with teenaged girls that year–1924–because King Tut’s…