Yeah, I know, I’m sharing a lot lately. It’s still partly the hangover from the Lilly-South conference on collegiate teaching, as well as the occurrence of another strange, you-just-don’t-ask confluence. This time it was a rich conversation about attitudes towards students happening at the same time I received an unexpected message couple of days [...]
Well, three academic streams are confluencing in class this week. First, the students are working on “The Song Thing” project; second, I have due what I angrily call “grrrrrrrrrrrrrr,” very unproductive, stress-imposing, mid-term “in progress grades;” and, third, students are journaling to me their answers to my own mid-term “How are we doing so far?” [...]
We all need a time and place, a secret spot in our soul, where our dreams can safely go. Mine are usually in a pre-dawn walk. Not this cold mid 20s morning. It’s about 6:00 a.m. I’ve been up since 3:45. I had to help Hope (Woo Kyoung Hee), the Korean student who had [...]
“Dashing through the snow, on a one horse……” The temperature is in mid 20s out there. Last night we had snow! In Valdosta! First time in twenty years. All four flakes inundated us!! A blizzard!!! We’re buried. They sanded and salted the roads. Out came the tire chains. Everything came to a halt. The fire [...]
No, I’m not still in a holiday mood. Then, again, maybe I am. No, I’ll take that back. I am. I always am. But, especially this cold, 35 degree morning. Curiously, my “resilient word for today” is SEE. Curious, because this morning in the cold, crystal pre-dawn I could see crystal clear in the dark [...]
There are moments when serendipity reigns and you don’t ask questions. This morning, getting myself deeper into the groove for the Lilly-South conference on teaching in higher education in Greensboro this weekend, sipping a cup of freshly brewed coffee, I opened my e-mail box. As I scrolled down and exercised my forefinger on the [...]
