It is only the second week of school and the second week of my retirement and already I have received several email requests from students to write them letters of recommendations for college. I know that this is just the…
When I was teaching, I was known as someone with an incredible amount of energy. I would carry a 24 oz. cup of coffee and actually drink most of it throughout the day. I don't know if I was really…
I have been doing a lot of thinking about the stories we tell about our careers, particularly the end of our careers. Narratives carry the meaning of the events in our lives --- birth narratives courtship narratives.... family narratives. I…
This has been a very hard week for me --- for one of the first times in almost fifty years, I am not returning to school, any kind of school in any role after Labor Day. While I officially retired…