check-in
It's been an eventful month, getting back to another semester and trying to stay ahead of the endless grading. I'm only one set behind now. Well, three-quarters of a set behind. In the meantime, though, I managed to get in a motorcycle ride this past Sunday with Maggie, up to the Friendly Store for breakfast and a three(ish)-mile hike out toward the Gap Lakes in Med Bow. The day before, I facilitated a session at the fall literacy conference, two-and-a-half hours of really excellent information and discussion about the gap between high school and college writing expectations. My brilliant idea for the relatively long session was to assemble smart people from a range of disciplines, who then said smart things about the struggles and gaps they discover in working with first- and second-year students. A few weeks ago, Maggie and I made a trip down to Ikea to find a new bed, since hers got recalled by the friend-of-a-friend who'd originally given/loaned it to her. Addi