First day

Oh oh oh! Today is the first day of classes for the Fall 2022 semester. I’m ready! By the numbers: 61 years old 14 pounds lighter 2 shades grayer 35th year of teaching Beginning 24th year of full-time university teaching employment 8 pairs of spectacles to keep the students guessing 4 dozen pairs of cufflinksContinue reading “First day”

Thank you

As the new school year begins tomorrow, and I enter a classroom for a 9 a.m. class, I am bouyed by these words from my erstwhile student Phil Solhiem, interviewed in May at Webster’s commencement ceremonies . . . . This year marks my 24th year of full-time tertiary teaching. If we trace from myContinue reading “Thank you”