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What Keeps Me Writing? The Simple Questions with Complex Answers

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“When are you going to run out of things to write about?” a colleague recently quipped in an email. Truth be known, I’ve wondered that myself. I do regularly revisit topics I’ve covered previously, but hopefully with new ideas and information. Surprisingly, when it’s time to write the weekly column, ideas do come to mind. How can that be? I started writing The Teaching Professor in 1987.

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