Topics to write about in this blog: brainstorming.

A young friend helped me set this blog up. I have no idea who will ever read it, or why. I intend to use it as a learning tool, and in the process, write out some stuff that might prove useful someday.

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.