Some possible topics of interest:
- Childhood memories.
- Tales that I heard from parents, grandparents and other elders.
- Germans from Russia in North America.
- English, Scottish and Irish Americans.
- Pioneer stories.
- The 60s.
- The 70s.
- Favorite places.
- Perpetual ponderings.
- All the schools where I spent significant amounts of time, as a student or teacher: Linwood. Indian Creek. SMS. KU. Coffeyville. University of Iowa. Tokyo Denki University. University of Minnesota. St. Mary's University of Minnesota.
- My thoughts on language.
- My thoughts on language learning, and language teaching.
- My thoughts on ethnicity.
- Letters that I wrote to friends between the ages of 12 and 21, more or less. (I have them somewhere, and would like to post select portions of those. . . kind of like Ann Frank's diary.
- Mexico.
- Japan.
- The Arab world as I have experienced it from afar.
- Memories of Special Someones. What I appreciated and learned from each one.
- My children (with due respect for their privacy and dignity.)
- Oklahoma.
- Kansas.
- Iowa.
- Minnesota.
- Chiba.
- Hawaii.
- Codependency and related issues.
- The challenges of the WASP in America today.
- Misunderstandings between friends.
- Understandings and camaraderie.
- Animals: their beauty, their souls, their place in my life and in the world at large.
- What I learned about Native American life and thinking from a Special One.
- Kumon.
- Learning.
- Nature.
- Coincidences, patterns, amazing encounters and mysterious things.
Well, that's a start: brainstorming. I'll leave it at that for today.
