It has been a while, over three weeks I think, since I last glided through the quiet, early morning streets. A knee wrenched by stumbling over a raised crack in the asphalt saw to that. It is amazing how quickly you lose it if you don’t keep up the walking. This morning I wasn’t consciously [...]
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Watch your ego! That warning was bouncing around my brain as I struggled to walk on an aching wrenched knee in the black south Georgia morning. But that counsel had nothing to do with my physical agony. It had been issued in gentler words by a Canadian professor of English with whom I have become [...]
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I ask my students to journal voluntarily, reflecting about themselves, others, me, the operation of the class, and life in general. I journal along with them. I don’t collect the journals; I don’t read them; I don’t grade them. As a sidebar, at the suggestion of the students, next quarter I will start making the [...]
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