[14 years ago this week, this blog was born. For this year’s anniversary series, I wanted to highlight a handful of the types of posts that have kept me blogging for nearly a decade and a half now. Leading up to some special weekend tributes!]
In mid-May
2011, almost exactly six months into my blogging career, I decided to end
the Spring 2011 semester with a few consecutive posts (starting with that
hyperlinked one) reflecting on that semester’s classes, teaching, and other
work in my roles at Fitchburg State. I won’t pretend to remember if I planned
at that time to make such end-of-semester reflections a consistent part of the
blog, nor exactly when I decided to complement them with beginning of semester
posts (I featured
one individual such post in September 2011, but featured the first full pre-semester
series
in January 2012, and likewise featured a weeklong end of semester series
that May). All I know is, it’s been a long time since I’ve started or ended
a semester without blogging about it, and I really love how much the two go
hand-in-hand for me: the promise of a new semester and the opportunity to express
those hopes in this space; the culminating moments of a semester and the chance
to think about takeaways from that work here. Other than my sons, teaching and
blogging have been my two true constants over the last 14 years, and I love
that they’re so intertwined.
Next post
on posts tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Give
me a great anniversary present and say hi in comments, please!
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