Yesterday morning, I received a dark, what I call a “whew” message from a virtual colleague. “Exhausted” and depressed from end-of-the-term testing and grading rituals, he needed a sympathetic ear and shoulder to talk about his litany of semester travails. “It all seems so hopeless and pointless,” he wrote as a summarizing moan because of [...]
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Yesterday two students came up to me on campus. “Hey, Dr. Schmier. We’ve signed up for the upper division class in the Fall.” they said as they introduced themselves. “We going to do another play, aren’t we?” They caught me by surprise. “We’ll see,” was my feeble answer. After we chatted, I left them, thinking, [...]
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All week I’ve been thinking about a touching message I had received from Ann Brauer Andriacco of St. Dominic School in Cincinnati, Ohio. She told me a very warm story, so warm it made me sweat with joy. It was about how her seventh grade students made a passage using their school work to doing [...]
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