The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

I received a message from a professor at a southwetern university who took exception to my final teaching “MUST”: to prime good feeling in each student. “Higher education is be brain-based. There is no place for emotion. That’s New Age, feel good, touchy-feely nonsense.” I have to admit to ignorance. I never did really understand [...]

I went for a walk this pre-dawn spring morning. It is spring, you know. Know how I know? No, it’s not the surge of color emerging from the ground. No, it’s not the fact that not too long ago we interfered with Mother Nature and made that artificial chronological earthquaking lunge forward. No, it’s not [...]

I am going to play pop-psychiatrist. I often wonder why people lose it on the highway. After talking once again with a colleague yesterday, I think I may have an idea. My colleague practices what I am going to call “class rage.” Maybe in broader terms I should call it “campus rage.” She doesn’t think [...]

I want to talk this morning about miracles, miracles of life, large miracles, great miracles, profound miracles, mysterious miracles. It was a miraculous week last week, wasn’t it. Two great religions last week each celebrated holidays of great miracles of life that are at their cornerstone: the Passover and Easter. Last week, my angelic Susan [...]