The Nadine Scene

I know, I know, you probably aren't supposed to blog about something an entire month after it's happened.  But hey, it's my blog and I make the rules.  Deal with it. When planning my summer travels this past year, I was fortunate enough to hear about a conference in northern England in early July. The conference, put on by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, was an opportunity for me to do more research on a topic that I have started to research this past year, by way of a federal grant sub-award at the University of Texas at Dallas with a colleague (by the way, UTD - that's where I work now).  It turns out that mentoring and coaching are pretty big research areas in Europe, above and beyond the work we do in the States, so it was well worth a trip to see what was happening on this side of the pond.  But I can't go to the UK without visiting friends, so first, I had to stop in London. Here's an exerpt of what I wrote in my travel journal the morning...

I just realized that I haven't posted anything to this blog in over 2 years.  Ironically, my last blog post came while I was living in an apartment in southern Spain and now I am writing this from my hotel room in Malaga, a mere 60 minutes away from that apartment.  The universe is a funny place sometimes... So what has happened in the last two years?  Well, both a lot and not so much.  The basic update - I'm still a professor, I still love to travel, and I still can't cook.  But the details have definitely changed some, such as the part where I moved to Texas (Dallas, to be exact), am finishing up another summer abroad, and have only managed to learn how to make one dish in the intervening years (well, two if you count perfecting a Pimms Cup Cocktail).  So why pick up the blog again?  Fair question.  Let me think about it. One thing that my moving to Texas has really underscored for me is how much I miss the people in my life that I've met ov...