A goal without a plan is just a dream I scrawled this message about goals on my classroom whiteboard in the spring of 2012 during our campus Career Day event, hoping to instill in our pregnant and parenting students (notoriously bad planners) the importance of planning toward their futures. I’m happy to realize that soContinue reading “What’s Your Plan?”
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Literary Overload
I recently returned from the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference in Kansas City, Missouri with a backpack full of flyers and a head full of the sights and sounds of thousands of creative writing educators, publishers, and literati in one place. The Kansas City Convention Center is huge, and it’s spread overContinue reading “Literary Overload”
Success
What is success? Maybe it’s like pornography: you know it when you see it. Unfortunately, the signs aren’t always visible, and we can’t know if a person who seems successful to us feels as though they are. For too many of us, complete satisfaction is just beyond ever-moving goalposts. We’d be a lot more contentContinue reading “Success”
Janice Airhart 