Archive for January, 2003

Commitment To Teaching

Another high 20′s brrrr morning. We’re growing peach melba on our trees this wintery year! Going out a tad late didn’t help much. I didn’t really want to be a huskie in the Arctic. Boy did I come up with a bunch of excuses why I shouldn’t and couldn’t go out into the south Georgia [...]

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Dr. Martin Luther King

Last Thursday night, I attended the Dr. Martin Luther King commemorative program at the University. As I looked over the almost all African-American audience with an occasional speckle of white, I thought how wrong it is to think that the celebration of Dr. King’s accomplishments is completely an African-American thing. It is not. It’s a [...]

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On Fire or Burnt out

Good morning. Had a great walk this morning even it was in the mid-20s. After walking the grinding Himalayan hills of San Mateo, six miles on the flatlands of South Georgia is a breeze. Talking about grinds and breezes, I passed a colleague from another department as I bounded two steps at a time up [...]

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Suns and Dots

A belated Happy New Year to “ya’ll.” It’s another high 20′s “brrrrrr” south Georgia morning. A thin film of frost covered everything like a delicate veil of shimmering lace. Those winged hyperdermic needles we call mosquitoes were grounded by the ice on their wings. I walked through the tundra this morning with frozen, bleary-eyes. Didn’t [...]

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