Teaching full time plus does not leave a lot of time for writing blogs. It doesn’t leave a lot of time for doing much of anything, actually. And on many levels this has been an exhausting year–my first back in the US after 13 years. Back teaching a practically whole new generation American kids. Most of my students this year were about 5-8 years old when I left America. I tell you, there’s a huge difference. I’ll be writing about in the weeks to come, and in fact right now I’m writing an academic paper on that very subject. I’ll be “treating” you to a mainstream version soon.
Right now I’m processing a lot of what I experienced this year. And because I’m a writer, I’m going to be writing about it, probably a lot.
I’m also having a great experience right now. I’m teaching a grad class on American Idealism. I picked the topic because it is a theme of what I want to address in the book I’m working on. I thought have a bunch of grad students to talk things through with would help. It is, immensely. I’m so lucky to have a great group of multi-disciplinary students–people from history, literature, education and law. I feel like the pistons are really firing in my brain, so I should be able to write more frequently.
So stay tuned and thanks for your patience!
