The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

I apologize for sending another Random Thought so close on the heels of the previous one. I scribbled this down last Sunday night and had forgotten it until I cleaned out the pockets of my pants last night. I hope you will bear with me: Here I am, sitting on the floor at Gate 29, [...]

“When I retire, I will _____________(fill in the blank with something joyful).” If you read the newspapers, with companies going bankrupt and government taking over corporate pension funds, retirement doesn’t appear to be so much of a guaranteed guarantee, appealing prospect, or blissful promise as it once was, even if you were a high level [...]

Well, I’ve been meditating to get in the mood to go to the Lilly conference on excellence in college teaching held annually on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Actually, I don’t have to get myself up too much since I haven’t as yet come down to far from the conference I attended [...]

I had just returned from the exciting POD conference in Montreal. For almost two days, I ate, walked and talked among a large group of people associated with Teaching and Learning Centers on various collegiate campuses. In my reflections of the conference, I had said that to the person the people attending were a caring [...]