We have already completed the first week of the Fall 2012 semester. This past year has been one great challenge after another for me. The past three weeks have been no different. I recently took over the duties of department chair while our actual department chair is on a semester leave. Learning these new duties has forced me to grow in unusual directions, and has been demanding. I was afraid that the chair duties would consume me, and that it would cause me to neglect my teaching duties.
But my classes of the past week have been one of the greatest teaching moments of my life, if not the most. My mind was thirsty for these classes, and I feel like I hit almost every note well.
The students in my classes seem great. The material I selected for this course seems great. I seem to have the support of my faculty colleagues, college staff and administrators of the institution. I have never been more excited to blast in to a semester of thinking and teaching philosophy: my greatest and most fulfilling passion since I first opened Plato’s Republic in 1997.
I have stopped blogging. That was an illness. I will strive to bring it back.
Natural Causes 