Reignited...

[from Heart of Canada in this post]

When I was teaching, I thrived on the social and intellectual interchange of the academic world everyday. When I was put out of the academic world, like a cat on a cold winter morning, I looked back a few times and then gingerly stepped, one foot at a time, into a world that was, for the most part, silent. That's what happens when you suddenly are on your own. When I talk to people now, it's private and confidential, and there's no social and intellectual interchange like I had with students.

Then came blogging. I'm starting to recognize how important and meaningful blogging was for me at a time when there really was nobody to talk to on a personal or social basis all day long.