Today was probably my last convocation as a CSU Long Beach faculty member. It’s one of those things that I knew but I didn’t really feel until my colleague Lindsay mentioned it, and then all of the sudden, I thought, “Yes, this is one of the first of the lasts of this semester, of this […]
Month: August 2023
Pause
It’s been a week. I am adjusting to the flow of this period of transition. It is both hard and emotional. In the past, I would have just buried the hard and emotional in the flow of the constant work there is to do. (There is always more that can be done in this work.) […]
Feeling Transitions
Today was my son’s last first day of his K-12 (primary/ secondary) schooling career. Throughout this “rising senior” summer, I’ve had moments of fleeting awareness that this day was coming, that this benchmark would arrive, sooner than I was ready for it, and today, it did. I did not need many Kleenex, as I predicted […]