I call it “syncing passions,” combining activities I love, increasing both the effectiveness and enjoyment of each. Like hanging out with students and climbing mountains. In the last four years, I’ve summited at least a half-dozen times with my favorite people. Plus, we’ve practiced for the higher peaks with a dozen or more excursions into […]
Eschatology—it’s a theologian’s word meaning “last things.” Eschatologists study the events surrounding the end of the world. Preretirement has its eschatology, its list of last things. Just this week I took a class to the Writers Corner for the last time, I taught peer review of essays for the last time, and I filled in […]
I wish life had first drafts. My students will bring theirs tomorrow. They’ll work in groups to make their compositions better before the teacher sees them. Wish I could do the same in life—have several practice runs at something (like raising children or starting a new business) before it counted—before failure was permanent. But then, […]