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- It's my last semester before retiring from teaching for 40 years, and on Wednesdays I have a 12 hour teaching schedule. 12 hours. I teach from 9am to 9pm. It's a lot, y'all, especially with a lack of oxygen in my blood from chronic kidney...
- I've written here often about what it's like to be a war child and get PTSD for 6 years in the midst of close urban combat in a civil war as a missionary kid overseas. I mean CLOSE urban combat. Close enough that soldiers took over my house and...
- I live in a Rust Belt city that lost half of its population when the factories closed in the 1980s. The population that remains gets by on disability and welfare checks and dealing heroin, which has led to a lot of overdoses in town and a lot of...
- Oh. My. God. When I started teaching Spanish 40 years ago, the technology I had to handle was a hardbound (not a paperback) textbook and a piece of chalk. No screen, slide projector, in-classroom tv, much less any computer built into a console...
- I've just emerged from pandemic teacher hell, my friends. Tonight I had to teach via live streaming (like Zoom, but a cheaper knock off called Teams my community college uses). It was a total disaster. The college infrastructure is just not...
- Tomorrow I have my 6 month kidney doc appointment to see how my 60% kidney damage from Seroquel for PTSD is faring. Sometimes it seems this stuff never ends--going from chronic PTSD to chronic kidney disease and nerve damage from it just from...
- I'm 62, and I started teaching at 22, so 2 semesters in 40 years of teaching means tomorrow I start my 80th semester.Man, I'm tired! I'm not tired of teaching, I'm physically tired because a psychiatrist overprescribed Seroquel for my PTSD...
- Hi, everybody,If you're like me, having PTSD during this pandemic has added some work to my usual PTSD recovery, what with the isolation and all. I'm going through a week of doctors and I'm finding anticipating these appointments to be...
- Today I began a week of doctor's visits, and it triggered me right off the bat. I have chronic kidney disease (CKD) because of years of taking lithium and Seroquel for my PTSD on the orders of my psychiatrist. Now I have twice as many PTSD...
- Hi, y'all: I've been caught off guard on coming back from a walk to see rioting in Washington, DC on the evening news. I immediately was triggered and had a panic attack that led to sobbing. Why?TRIGGER WARNING1. As a missionary kid raised...
- I've been so lucky that I've had 2 careers: one as a Spanish university professor for 17 years from 1983-2000 and one for 10 years as a hospital chaplain 2000-2010. Now I'm retiring from my third one of 10 years combining the two teaching...
- Just logged on quickly for a reminder that as I posted last week I'm figuring final exams right now for my full time community college teaching job. They're due Monday morning. I collected all of my students' final exams and term papers...
- TRIGGER WARNINGHi, y'all. I'm 62 years old now, but I'm still having flashbacks from when I was 15 years old and on Dec. 8, 1973 I was tortured by a military death squad under a dictatorship in South America where I grew up as a missionary kid. ...
- 12-7-20Hey, y'all,Just a heads up that in just ending Monday this week I'm realizing Finals Week this semester is going to be more of a handful for me this time. Due to the pandemic, I've been teaching all of my classes via computer live streaming...
- Hi, y'all. I'm 62 years old, so I remember the Beatles when I was a kid, and I just saw Paul McCartney live 3 years ago. In that spirit, I listened to a podcast interview today with John Lennon's son, Sean Lennon, just with music in mind.Boy,...