...for the time being, anyhow.
I'm on an academic leave, working with staff and faculty at the University of Salford in the areas of multicultural teaching and learning, and teaching professional development (as one of the early career faculty I worked with put it - I "coach future and new college faculty in teaching and learning so that we never have to suck as teachers"). I'm loving the transition but missing easy access to Twins baseball games and to conversation about politics Minnesota style (living in a working class St. Paul neighborhood that means genuine informed arguing rather than Minnesota Nice (passive-aggressive) or confrontational sound bites.
Loving the easy access to multiple music and theatre venues, as well as to travel in Wales - the place I learned from my grandmother to think of as "the home place."
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