A fun way to wake up Christmas morning.

This fall semester has been one of the busiest of all time for me-- a great deal of travel and teaching and many fantastic opportunities to begin new projects and make new personal and professional connections. Thankfully however we thought ahead and booked a much needed Caribbean holiday vacation back in the summer-- good thinking!

I will be handing in final marks tonight and bidding adieu to students and faculty (and my blog as well) until the new year. I wish all of you a wonderful holiday season and a very happy and safe new year's celebration. Thanks once again for all of your warm feedback on my blog and its contents-- it has become a true labour of love that I hope to find more time for in the spring semester. Look for me to resume posting in early January with a new series of posts on essential art exhibitions to visit in 2012 and an update on the many new technological tools I have been testing out on my tablet and home computer.

For now, have a listen to the Three Tenors covering John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Happy Christmas, War is Over. Considering all of the tumultuous events globally in 2011, it seemed a very fitting wish to send out to the blogosphere.

Peace, Dorothy.