I miss writing newsletters...fancy that!

Here goes.

Not entirely sure why i'm doing this, except that maybe a part of me misses writing newsletters every three months and email updates every two weeks. Okay, so i didn't send a prayer email update every two weeks, but i did try. My calendar had them scheduled in. It would ding at me as i graded papers, organized lecture notes, found materials for a read-and-discuss activity...and i would click "remind me later". The bell was going to ring any moment and I WASN'T READY, whereas i could draft the newsletter at home that night.

I usually forgot to turn my computer on once i got home. It would ding at me the next morning while i was grading papers, organizing lecture notes, finding materials for an activity, reading to know enough to feel confident teaching about the causes of WWI... . (I never know enough).

I do miss writing them. I miss having to pay attention to my life and reflect on it so that i'd have something to write. I miss getting mail back, too. I do not miss signing, stamping, and licking envelopes to mail out the newsletters.

That's part of a blog's appeal, i suppose. I can write with little concern about distribution. No paper jams. No licking stamps. No un-sticking envelopes that had sealed themselves from the 80% humidity. No paper used at all (i hope).