In reflecting on my many teachers and mentors, I’ve naturally been considering the profound influence my parents and immediate family have had on who I am. My dad was born at the same hospital I would be some 35 years later. He was born to immigrant parents, spent most of his life in the same… Continue reading My Intellectual Genealogy: Part 2
I recently found out that I am the recipient of the Library Journal’s Teacher of the Year Award. This has me reflecting once again on the great fortune I had to have so many teachers and mentors over the course of my academic journey. Here’s an email I sent to Anderson University, my alma mater,… Continue reading My Intellectual Genealogy: Part 1
Last night we watched the wonderful movie “Outsourced” and it got me thinking about the two types of travel I’ve already been fortunate enough to enjoy in my life. Experiencing the Wonders of God and Man I’ve been mock charged by a bull elephant in South Africa and swung down trees in the rainforest of… Continue reading Reflections on Two Types of Travel
I’ve been asked a number of times, especially after the most recent storms, why I like winter. Walking in this morning as the sun shown off the snow, I was again reminded of just how beautiful I find the world after fresh snowfall. I love the calmness of the winter snow. If we let it,… Continue reading Why I Love Winter
I just heard a news report that spoke of the winter storm that had “wreaked havoc” on the midwest. Tornadoes wreak havoc. Floods wreak havoc. I look out my bedroom this Christmas morn and think the only havoc the snow caused was to disrupt our chaotic lives. No, there is only beauty out my bedroom… Continue reading The calmness of a winter snow
