Archive for May, 2019
A Bargain!
I didn’t know until last week that there was an Indian edition.
It was a fun project written with a dear friend.
Mother’s Day
My mother, Maureen Basil, was a grand, generous, and acerbic woman. We bedevilled one another for decades. During her last years, we achieved a courteous and warm back-and-forth. I love and miss her.
New Chalk
I begin my sixteenth year at Kwantlen Polytechnic University today. This summer I’m teaching a couple sections of Advanced Professional Communications and one of Technical Report Writing. These are healthy, hearty classes! I am looking forward to meeting my new students. This gig has been such a blessing.
[Addendum – this came in from my university’s administration a couple hours ago: “Surrey RCMP have alerted us to an unsubstantiated threat against KPU, specific to today. The threat is not specific to any one campus. Therefore, out of an abundance of caution and with the highest regard for the safety and security of our students and employees, KPU is evacuating all buildings immediately and closing all five of its campuses for the remainder of the day. All classes at all campuses are cancelled for rest of the day and our buildings will remain closed while security reviews the situation.” No update on this yet.]
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