Faculty are just like students in class – whispered communiques in the back of the lecture hall.

Deep blue skies above Memorial Hall on campus.

Foggy morning in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and rain in Liverpool, New York, as I waited to meet friends for dinner.

Early December brings high school band fruit sale deliveries … took four trips to bring it in to the office, a sign of appreciated support from my colleagues.

More orderly, but ready.

Caffeinated and chaotic, the holiday season has begun.

And so it begins … year six.