Wayner Dyer said, "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." I believe this to be true. I have the great privilege to be able to teach material I am passion about to students I sincerely enjoy...I am doing what I love. I believe that loving what I do does open [...]
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Dear Mrs. Cunningham…
Dear Mrs. Cunningham, I write you today to share some information about your son Charles (also known as Charlie, Chuck, C-squared and C-dizzle). As you know, Charles has been in the emergency management program for awhile. As a faculy member who often is saddened to see students leave I have been gratified that we have [...]
End of semester melancholy…
Well, today was the last day of my regular classes for the semester. I get so tired by the end of the semester it feels like I am sliding into home base on a prayer. Yet, I always feel a bit melancholy when the last regular class sessions arrive each semester. I am fortunate in [...]
A joy multiplier…
It has been a fabulous summer, but come Monday life as I know it resumes in earnest with the start of the 2010-2011 academic year. I have to admit (in a geeky faculty kind of way) that I am a little bit excited to get back into the classroom with my students. I really do [...]
In case you wanted to be on my Christmas list…
Today is the last day of my regular classes this semester. It has been a very long semester filled with turmoil and upheaval at the university and in my life. These last two months in particular have been exhausting...but, I think I survived (this may be a premature statement)...I am still standing - albeit, barely. [...]
“Look at me! Look at me!”
Well, it is that time of year again...time for faculty to submit their faculty activity reports...yeah. I call it my exercise in, "Look at me! Look at me!" Over the years that I have done this report I have become a bit more comfortable with this notion that you have to be sure to do [...]
“Shut the Chuck up!”
Well its back-to-school – for me. It has been a long three months without my students and frankly I have missed the interaction. A large cohort of our students graduated in May and I was sad to see them go. By virtue of the classes I teach, I typically see all the undergraduate students in [...]
THE NEW FORTY 