“Teaching college courses has been very exciting. I’m actually on a special assignment from my job in Public Affairs at the Kennedy Space Center, so teaching is a brand new experience for me. I didn’t have any specific expectations going into the classroom for the first time this semester, and I think what surprised me…
I’ve known quite a few people who briefly experienced the joy of getting a job that allowed them to work from home, only to resort back to the office or classroom a short while later out of frustration. Sounds strange, right? Isn’t ‘working from home’ supposed to be the goal in our modern lives? If…
Years ago I couldn’t read enough books about travel, specifically from the perspective of authors who would recount their journey living in foreign places for longer stretches of time. I eventually passed through that phase and moved on to others, although I find myself interested in rereading some of my old favorites to prepare for…
While brainstorming what I should write about for the blog today, I decided the topic of ‘easy efficiency would be a something valuable to discuss. If you’re an online instructor, there are little inconveniences that creep in throughout the semester that become frustrating (sometimes without it occurring to us that we could actually fix these…
I’ve helped a few friends get through the book writing process with suggestions, emails, and phone calls, and they always say “You make it sound so easy! You should teach a course about this!” There are plenty of articles and Udemy courses out there on the subject matter, but for the sake of sharing my…