Category Archives: Words

25 years ago, ish, I had to serve on the faculty senate at my college. I’m certain it was one of those “send the new gal,” things, but I perceived it as an honor, of course.  Midway through my career I served on several high level committees with more or less “success,” but that’s notContinue reading “Meetingspeak”

A dirty little secret… Well, maybe not “dirty,” but least suspect…No worries, I’m not about to talk about sex (sorry to disappoint).  I’ll bring that up later in the year when I begin to talk about the eroticism of higher education.  But for now, I call it “dirty” because it’s so abhorrent to my profession…Continue reading ““Dirty” Little Secret”

Again, I ask for help… Be present and alive…that’s all I ask. That’s a lot. I know. Help me Disappear with great great effort to appear… I appear first “present and alive…” So I can slowly disappear. It’s a rhythm thing. __ Take a leap baby…it’s in the language, the paint. Bold, Italics, all thoseContinue reading “Still asking for help from a higher power — from I.T.?”

Why am I nervous? I greet my students in an hour.  I’ve done this hundreds of times, why the extra butterflies right now?  I admit that I most likely always have a tad bit more adrenaline on day one, but not actual “nerves” like I do this morning.  Is it the technology?  The sheer volumeContinue reading “Less than an Hour From Now”

See that? Everyone in the world can see and hear (and judge) my use of the “f word.” Same thing holds for all the content I create here in my Final Year of Teaching chronicle. Oh my, what will happen when my students and colleagues read my blogs? The truth will out? I will useContinue reading “Fuck it”