Labor Day weekend is upon us. Susie and I are about to hop a plane for some family–and professional–time in D.C. But, you know, generally Labor Day has lost its meaning. People no longer take it seriously. They’ve forgotten it origins. The parades of my youth celebrating workers rights, protections, contributions have mostly disappeared. They [...]
Been up since 3:30 am. Couldn’t sleep. Can’t hit the streets. Did something to one of my tarsai a week ago. Thank goodness for Motrin 800s. Thinking about and slowly accepting impending retirement in December. It’s done. Submitted the official notice yesterday. Paper work starts next week. Knew it was ultimately coming, just not this [...]
God, these last few weeks have been a struggle. Things have a way of arriving unannounced. But, there is an upside to this inner and outer struggle. It has made me look deeper into myself as a teacher and ask, “As a teacher, who am I?” Here’s my answer. If I am merely a [...]
About to head for the streets. Been out of bed since 3:30, thinking, feeling, turned on before I turned the lights on, flipped out before I flipped the light switch, fired up. No fear of waking Susie; I’m bacheloring this week while she sails the seas of the Caribbean with my Michael’s family and especially [...]
I wandered on campus Friday to check out and set up one of my classrooms for the coming semester. A custodian was cleaning the carpets. I stopped to chat with him. He looked at me more than a tad stunned when I said with a slight pat on his back, “Thanks for keeping this place [...]
I’m musing. I love sitting in silence and solitude by the koi pond listening to the soothing waterfalls and watching the smooth movement of the koi, forcing myself to come terms with the time and place I’m in. It creates a peaceful awareness that life is being renewed every moment, that change is a constant. [...]
