OK so I admit, this site has gone a little stale over the years. Back when I was active in ESL, ESL had no job-seeking links, no TESOL directory either, and I addressed those needs. I got links for many years from people who appreciated that I had two of the best directories around, and I kept them updated the best I could. But then I retired, and that was twelve years ago, aand things went downhill fast. It wasn't that I didn't want to keep them up, I just couldn't bear thinking about it; it was like work. After too much ESL, I just couldn't go back.

I'm still that way. I have two books, both important to me, and they're each half done, but when I get into them I have a hard time applying myself to the work angle of it, because basically I'm retired. I just don't want to think about it anymore, sometimes.

One of them is a novel that documents the most interesting aspects of my teaching. It is actually the coolest of projects, because it moves like a novel, has heroes and villains, has a plot, etc. Yet it's like going back to work: almost unbearable. I can practically feel the classroom when I write about it.

The second is the language as a self-organizing system project, which actually requires linguistic thinking, thus making it even harder to finish. Yet it is even more important, because it is my legacy, what I leave to the language world, and language philosophy badly needs the voice of someone who has watched thousands of learners cross the line into fluency. My writing is important, at least to me, yet I can barely sit down and finish it.

Back to this site. I have a couple other sites related to my experience teaching. One is about how we adopt technology without thinking about its effects on our language or on learners. Another is about the chat revolution. But the only one I really keep updated successfully is the wiki people site. I was once a good materials creator, and could have done well in textbooks but just didn't want to get involved with publishers; in my era they were already overcharging by 2 or 300 percent for every textbook, and worse, changing them every year so people couldn't trade old ones. But the wiki site is the last of my work.

I will organize, and put it here, I promise. Right now it appears this site is not even linked to any of them. That will change.