Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a chat. We can get caught up on old times or share a favorite story or memory. Social media has descended upon us with a vengeance and the pandemic has ended our coffees together. Topics of interest we may have in common are being a parent or grandparent, teaching and schools, senior living, writing poetry, Amana, Iowa, C.H. Wendel and Letter Press printing.

Over the last almost 50 years as an educator, I taught at Weeks Junior High, was an administrator at Brody Junior High, Des Moines Technical High School., Central Campus and Adult Education. I taught for nearly 10 years for various colleges and universities including Drake, William Penn, and Des Moines Area Community College.

If you are a friend, colleague, classmate, letterpress printer or one of my thousands of students, I am sure we will have lots to chat about. I am retired from traditional teaching but still have lots to share and the urge to keep teaching and learning. I want to learn about you and what you have been doing since we last were together.

When launched my website after the death of my spouse CH Wendel we were facing the devastating effects of the Covid pandemic.

In the years that followed my adjustment to living alone has been gradual. With the help of family and friends I have been able to once again reinvent myself. I have explored anthropology. geology and archeology. I collected rocks, rediscovered my love of drawing and painting and had a little poetry book published.

I celebrated my 80th birthday. I took a ten day travel journey to California and wrote a travel journal. For the past year I have concentrated on writing , taking care of my two pets, Lucy and Desi and struggling to keep up with new technology especially Artificial Intelligence.

In 2024 I hope to publish a book and complete a second one which is well underway.

While I have not entertained many visitors to my blogging, I learned how to do it. I highly recommend that people my age find something new to learn every day. Even if it is how to send a text on a cell phone. If you believe in life long learning as I do, it brings with it a constant challenge that will keep you going.

Watch for excerpts of my upcoming book: The Wedding Ring and consider writing a story yourself. If you want some help starting a story get in touch. I love to teach and coach new writers.