It has been some time wince I have posted anything here: just a shade over 2 years to be precise. I posted a list of the books that I read in 2022 at the end of that year and it has been silent here ever since. I have started posts that I never finished. I have thought a lot about what I might put here and I thought a lot about the direction that I wanted to take with this. All of these meaning that I never did anything with it.
Since the fall of last year, I have found myself in a
new job. I almost stumbled into a full-time teaching job at a community
college. This was an unexpected step for me. Though I have been teaching
college English for quite a long time, most of that has been part-time, and
almost all of it has been fully online since about 2016. I didn’t think that a
job like this was in the books for me and I had stopped looking for this kind
of work a long time ago. I won’t go into details here about how the job came
about, but suffice to say that the change has been good.
In the last 2 years I have read as much as I ever have,
but I didn’t feel the drive to write about anything. But that is returning to me.
I have two different academic projects in the works that I will wrap up in the
coming months and I think I am ready to restart writing here.
I don’t know with what regularity this will happen,
but I am making myself write this as an act of explanation to myself and as a
motivation to keep this up. I do enjoy doing this but I am out of practice.
