A new hope

It seems not so long ago that I was in the seventh grade and was learning to type... on an old-fashioned type-writer... not even electric. I learned to type for many reasons. Probably the most important for me was that my handwriting was slow, and it was hard to read. I was frustrated by the fact that I could never keep up with my own train of thought. Learning to type helped... I even began to complete thoughts, to save them for posterity. The development of the computer and word processing programs is nothing short of miraculous! But as much as I wrote, volumes of words, seldom was I read by any other than myself. What a shame.
My hope for this year is that I will learn, along with my students, how to share some of my questions, my conclusions, my ideas, and my beliefs with a larger audience. We are, after all, a global community.