In 1987, I had the good fortune and terror of being invited to co-teach a seminar on Aging and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center. “Why not?” was my immediate response, and the result has been a twenty-three year extra-curricular vocation as an adjunct professor of law.
I learned certain realities of teaching right away, such as do not try to cram the universe into a weekly two-hour class. But other realities took longer to appreciate in full, such as the superior teaching value of personal experience over abstract mental exercises. One challenge that evolved slowly over the years was creating a structure for the course that was both conceptually sound and practical for teaching purposes.