Tomorrow, as we have been doing for the past thirty-five years, Susie and I head to a farm about twelve miles from here to enter into a caloric comatose with our dear friends. Susie is in the kitchen preparing her magnificent spinach dip for our Thanksgiving food overdose. I’m here with a glass of delicious [...]
Tomorrow morning, literally before the proverbial crack of dawn, I’ll be hopping a “puddle hopper” on the first leg of my journey to the Lilly Conference on Teaching in Higher Education at Miami of Ohio. I’m already thinking and feeling. I can feel my inner fires getting stoked. I’m going into myself, putting on [...]
This morning, on the chilly, damp, misty, pre-dawn streets, I started getting into the groove, to go inside myself, to put on my game face, as I begin to prepare for my workshop on creating a motivating classroom for the Lilly Conference on Collegiate Teaching next week at Miami University. That getting into the [...]
Well, the semester is coming to a close. November is just beginning and it’s almost gone. The flow of my November is always disrupted by five “high” days at the Lilly conference on teaching at Miami University and the equally long Turkey Day break. Then, the students return in the daze induced by a caloric [...]
69! Yesterday! Ugh. Double ugh! At least, I got to dive into Susan’s deliciously wicked birthday cheese cake it took her two days to bake. Yesterday shouldn’t have been. My three mile power walk this morning shouldn’t have been. By all odds, I should be dead from a massive cerebral hemorrahage not many survive. [...]
