This week is Spring Break. Well, sort of. No, it is, but not necessarily for me. It's break for some schools, some instructors, some kids, but not…
Juggling 101
I was out walking with a friend last week and the conversation turned, as it often does, to school. She'd just finished her college-level writing class and…
Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the…
Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the…
Some days I really love chili peppers. I mean all kinds: habanera, jalapeno, serrano, the band from the 80s and 90s, and also the RateMyProfessor.com chilies. As…
How many times have you logged into your college mail accounts only to be overwhelmed by an avalanche of information, and then to realize that none of…
This morning I was standing in an urban classroom teaching the political ramifications of death for Westerners as viewed through a Japanese lens. In a few hours,…
There are days when I wonder why I even got out of bed. In teaching, these days can sneak up on you when you aren't ready for…
I am not shy. This was an asset back in the early 90s when I sold computers and corporate network solutions. It's an asset in the classroom…
I rushed around this morning trying to find my nice shoes, print out a copy of my lecture notes, grab the textbook, and wolf down something so…
