Raison d’être
My raison d’etre for being in this blogging start-up, my rationalization for whittling time away from reading student writing, scribbling fragments of poems, and wrestling with my 18 month old in order to participate in this blogging adventure is this: I want more. I want more structure and context to my thinking, I want more depth and breadth to my professional conversations, I want more ways to connect and be connected to the world of thought. I want to be part of an intellectual feedback loop, the kind of active dialogue I hope to inspire in my students. I trust my blog-knowledgeable colleagues when they assure me that “plugging in” will bring me all of this, and more.
