Lordy, it was windy out there this morning. ”Windy” isn’t the word for it. Powering walking two miles in swirling up to 25 mile an hour winds, I felt I was on a treadmill. Struggling to keep my balance and not be blown helplessly about by sudden gusts like the pine needles and leaves whisking [...]
As I was saying before Judy “interrupted,” I am not so naive or cavalier to believe that choosing to be yourself is a proverbial “piece of cake.” Far from it. Nor is it an enticingly comfortable topic, for it certainly doesn’t fall into that category of convenient, safe “how to” pedagogical quick fixes, easy tricks, simple [...]
Well, Judy (not her real name) caught me again. She came up to me after class as I was erasing the “how you feel” words off the white board and said, ”You really gave it to a lot us today for slacking off. But, I don’t understand something. What really got to me is that you [...]
I’m at the airport in Atlanta, on the floor. As I wait for the boarding call, I find that my brain, which thought was drained by three days of excitement at the Lilly Conference on Teaching, is racing. I’m thinking of something John Zubizarreta said, “I want them (students) to learn to take risks and [...]
