Hey my friends! It’s been too long…and so much of my time and creative energy has been consumed in finishing my dissertation (Chapter 5, here we come)! One of the best parts of being a teacher is getting to learn from my students. These young folks often provide viewpoints and life lessons during the simplest of interactions. I often do class roll call with a “question of the day.” Although the process eats up a few extra minutes of class time, it gets the students talking, wakes up their brains, and even produces some disarming humor…all while we get to know each other a bit better. Last week, one of my students suggested the question for the day: What time period do you wish you had lived within? Answers were all over the map. Two students wanted to see if they could hunt dinosaurs. Others yearned for the early 2000’s of their youth. Several young ladies wanted to experience the Roaring 20’s. My favorite answers, however, came from those who wished they h...