I've met lots of great folks higher ed in the last two decades...folks who want to do what's right.  Folks who see and deal with ideas that have outlived their usefulness and no longer serve a legitimate purpose. Seems like many people have their hands tied by beaucracy and the necessity of maintaining the status quo.   

The poet suggests that the way to affect change is to plant the seed of a notion and offer continued support  until a simple remembrance stirs a question...as, "Why do good fences make good neighbors?"  Then the walls will begin to come down...but not all at once, just "so two can pass abreast..."  I'll wait.

T.
 
 
I guess I'm finally ready to talk...

I'm one of those folks who dropped out of college to start my family.  So, when I went back to school I didn't have a degree. I was starting from scratch, an undergrad music major at 43!  A short while later, some budding young journalist asked to interview me.  She wanted to know how I got where I was.  She wanted the viewpoint of a 'non-traditional student'.  Holy cow!  How did I get here? I don't know...just ignorance I guess. Anyway, I wasn't ready to talk because I really didn't think I WAS anywhere.

So now, twenty years and three degrees later, I'm ready to talk.  That's what this blog is going to be about...where I am now and how I got here.  I wonder what happened to the journalism student...

T.