I have recently retired from a 30-year career mostly teaching ESL, but also teaching EFL, math, English, and music. Part of that career included voluminous writing, much of which is here. If I'm smart I can organize it, show it, and link to it from here. I can publish some of it, too, if I can pull it all together.
Most of my published work is here. I've been absorbed in short stories, haiku, and family genealogy, though I've also done Quaker plays and might do more of them. I'm letting go of the haiku. But I'm trying to finish some long-awaited novels.
With my language-related work, there is part of it that is timeless, and part that is not. To be brief, I believed that the integration of technology into our writing systems changed not only our systems but our understanding, and that it was a constantly evolving picture. I saw it as I taught. The technology taught as I taught, alongside me, and it changed the way people saw the language.
I will try to sort through the work I did and save what I can. I am still invited to TESOL regularly and have a strong impulse to go, but on the other hand, at 66, and afraid of covid and all, I think I'll just sort & publish what I've got, and call it a life. TESOL was supposed to be in Denver this year - doable for me, as I am only one state away - but not only was I busy, with the last of four children, all locked down, but also, it was canceled. Pushed aside. We language teaching specialists will have to just ruminate for a while. Look for changes on this site, soon.
