Where does time go?
Honestly, it feels like only last weekend my wife and I were on vacation. Yet, it was now over three weeks ago. And while we had a blast, we had some moments of consternation too. She had insisted we go away so we both could recharge….
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Time has flown by me once again.
I feel like I am emerging from a cave once again. It seemed like only yesterday my wife, and I were married, and I last wrote about…
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A long journey of healing…
I can remember clearly one of the early meetings with my doctor about healing myself. I knew I needed to change-thus the doc. I was tired of being tired. I so exhausted by all the things I had worked so long and so hard to…
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Intersecting Holidays
So, today was a mixture of holidays and recognition. In Canada, it was Canadian Thanksgiving. In short, a long weekend–nothing seemed to be open. Or having learned my lesson over the last two years–I made sure I went grocery shopping on Sunday. In the US it was Indigenous…
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Teaching about Indian Residential Schools and Survivors.
Teaching, ruminating, and thinking of the original 215 children found at Kamloops earlier this year is hard. I have taught for years about Indian Residential Schools (in Canada) or Indian Boarding Schools (in the US). It is a core part of teaching Intro…
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Yep, it’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…I had a crazy dream when I returned from serving in the Army to become a college professor. Back then, I so innocently thought it was show up teach for about nine to twelve hours week, collect…
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There is a lot swirling in my head today. I am a week away from classes starting and I am still busily prepping away—I am sure making some folks nervous. Today, also marks the day my dad passed thirty-four years ago. We are still amid a pandemic a year…
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It has been a very long since I last wrote here on the Meandering Mohawk space for my creativity and an outlet of some sort for my thinking. In reality, 1BigWebDesign has done another overhaul on this site, dealing with a rather particular and moody chap—me. But, as usually,…
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A slow goodbye to my dog.
Date: 07 April 2020
Category: Meandering Thoughts and Ponderings.
Caring for Dogs
Over the last twenty-four years of my life I have cared for dogs. In that span, I have had six dogs that moved with me from Rochester to Buffalo, Buffalo to Oswego, and finally from…
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My last entry was in Aotearoa (New Zealand). I had been fascinated by the ability to end one job and start another job in the span for a few hours they overlapped. My hope had been that once I settled in Toronto a few weeks later I’d start writing…
Kevin J. White
Toronto, CA