Whiteboards and markers can't be teaching the way blackboards and chalk did

Watching public exchanges over use of computers and tablets in schools and the effect it might have on kids' ability to read and write, I'm suddenly thinking about my college days, and the professors who really knew how to wield the chalk.

Ingrid, who wrote - flawlessly - with her right hand and swiped - simultaneously - with her left hand. Damn, that improved my speedwriting.

Anders, who taped a piece of chalk to his three middle fingers. Oddly, those two math profs were also among those who had the best writing hand.

And whatever the universe might mean by it, as I was pondering all those memories, this happened to show up.

I miss college.