“Whose school is it anyway?” That question has been swirling like a hurricane through my mind all this past first week or so of classes. It was on my mind as I walked this morning in the brisk morning air that is our one day of south Georgia autumn. I was thinking about an incident [...]
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Had an interesting but brief conversation this morning with a friend of mine in the hall of one the buildings on campus. He asked me how the triads were working out. I told him that they were a reasonable success, but it was a never-ending experiment since the students in each class each quarter are [...]
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What humidity. Walking this morning, even at 5:45, is almost like slogging through a deep swamp. While I was sweating as much water as I was inhaling, I was thinking about my office hours. It sounds like a silly or insignificant thing on which to devote my thinking time, but it’s not really. Have you [...]
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Blueberries! That’s what I was thinking about this morning as I knifed through the water-ladened, warm, darkened, south Georgia air. Now, you may ask why I was pondering those luscious, succulent, squshy, blue pearls. Well, its because of blueberries that I can teach a class of about 60, still be aware of and sensitive to [...]
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It was muggy, muggy, muggy this morning. Walking the streets today was like slogging through congealing jello. Anyway, I was thinking about two conversations I had yesterday. One was in the empty student union for morning coffee with four colleagues still roaming around the empty campus. The second was a telephone conversation with a “B+” [...]
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