advise

Don't put off education. Life will always happen. Joy, pain, ups, and downs will not go away for you to go back to school. Do it with life.

My hopes for the next decade as a learner

When my youngest Raven goes to college and I complete this program I want to travel and help create adult learning programs in Africa and India. Most of my life I have dreamed of working in Africa now I am blessed to travel for free and I want to see and learn about this earth and it's people first hand.

The joys of being a learner at my age

I am amazed at how much information I know. I tell my students "you know more than you think you know", this is true for most people. I love the challenge each week of the assignments in the doctorate program. I never find the time to look ahead, each week is new and exciting. The real joy is seeing my own improvement. I have not earned an A in four courses only B's. Yet I see progress.

Challenges of being a learner at my age:

Greetings,
Life Happens. At age 50 I thought all my children expect one are adults living on their own, I will have plenty of time to study. Right. My adult children need me just as much only in different ways than when they were small. Many times I start my study on time according to plan, and something like this happens; The phone rings my grandson is sick at school my third daughter a senior in college is not answering her cell. I pick up my grandson, spend time with him, now my two hours for study have passed. With seven children and six grandchildren life is always happening. One month this term I had a son in the hospital, a daughter to get married, and a daughter to start college in another city. My grades showed my lack of focus.

I have taught only mathematics for many years, with very little writing. My first course in the Ed.D program was extremely difficult. I had to re-learn basic grammar rules. I am thankful for a understanding professor that allowed me to re-submit three papers.