The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

For little over two months I’ve been e-chatting with Majorie (not her real name)who is attending another institution. I’ve resisted sharing her initial “smoking” message that started our conversation although she has urged me more than once or twice to send it out. Every time I read it I’m reminded that there may be more [...]

Like an opened good bottle of aged champagne, there’s a lot of stuff bubbling inside me. Maybe it’s just that the beginnings of the fall semester is only a few weeks away (I’m never wild about those going-through-the-motions meetings), I’m starting to put this challenging summer behind me, I miss the classroom, I miss being [...]

Friday morning I opened the front door and stepped out to get the mail. All the snail mail span was cooked to a crisp in this heat. It’s so hot down here in South Georgia Susan had to turn on the oven to cool the house down. Anyway, among the useless pieces of mail was [...]

After four miles on the flat, sweaty south Georgia streets I almost long for the cool, Himalayan streets of San Mateo. Actually, I long for my fifteen month old Natalie. Susan and I have been in the deep throes of “Natalie withdrawal.” It hasn’t even been two weeks since we held our grandbaby in our [...]