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97 days

February 24th, 2014 · Comments Off on 97 days · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Musings, retirement, time

I am working what’s called 3/5ths time this semester.  I take the equivalent 3/5ths pay cut, of course.  But, it does give me some breathing room.  If I were not retiring, next year or so would be time to apply for and take a sabbatical.  Unless you work an academic life, you have a hard […]

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98 days and a Sunday

February 23rd, 2014 · Comments Off on 98 days and a Sunday · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Musings, retirement, Work

I’m looking forward to a Sunday, many of them actually, when I don’t have to spend the afternoon preparing for classes!  What will I do when I have no homework to read, lesson plans to write, and organizing of a briefcase to do? I have had the good fortune to breakfast once a semester with […]

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99 days, and I am counting.

February 23rd, 2014 · Comments Off on 99 days, and I am counting. · Education, family, Musings, My Goals, retirement, Teaching & Learning, travel, Work

And, I suppose why not?  Some of the feelings up to this point – particularly as I was making the news known to my colleagues – were mixed.  It still feels mixed on occasion.  I really shall miss the teaching, and the privilege of watching the growth, of my students.  I will not miss what […]

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100 days, but who’s counting?

February 22nd, 2014 · Comments Off on 100 days, but who’s counting? · Education, Important People, Musings, My Goals, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work

On this birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay, a quote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — / It gives a lovely light!” In 100 days I expect to retire from a job that has helped to burn my […]

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October 28th, 2013 · Comments Off on · Education, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”  Evelyn Waugh The “Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keiller” reports that today is this author’s birthday, and provides us with this quote.  Just this past week, I’ve been having some […]

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