Cheers! Join me as I celebrate 20 years since my first day as a peer tutor.  When I look back, I see my professor Tom Reigstad (it was an internship experience for his class on the teaching of writing that placed me as a peer tutor) sending me on a path that would later define [...]

A new year:  I didn’t think I did too much holiday feasting, but that belt sure is tightening!
Most of us move toward middle age by letting our belt slip to a next opening…we pretend not to notice how we are no longer letting that buckle slip into the most used and worn in comfortable slot…now [...]

I am amazed that I can actually say I wrote this “Letter from Norman” while in Norman because I have been traveling more this summer than I have been in Oklahoma.
Yet travel is getting more difficult for all of us; with peak gas prices, airline delays, and shrinking travel budgets, it is a challenge to [...]

Letter from Norman, March 2008
Last year my letter from Norman noted the wild weather patterns we experience in our home towns and inside our institutions. A year later I have to say that wild weather is still with us: the December ice storm here in Oklahoma altered our campus landscape dramatically, downing almost 1,000 trees. [...]