Musings about life in retirement from academe
I don’t often figure in the media, local or otherwise, so last week was unusual in that respect. I managed to participate in a brief interview on the local ABC breakfast show and to be quoted in the weekend edition of the Sydney Morning Herald. About 2 weeks ago Gus Snow-McLean, USQ PR manager, emailed to say that an SMH...
For as long as I can recall I have walked quickly. It probably has to do with a certain impatience and a preference for being in one location or another rather than somewhere between. Sometime in my first few years of teaching high school, students observed my speed walking and nicknamed me “Stralb” – a contraction of Mister Albion. I...