Karen Eifler earned most of her white hair teaching middle school math in schools up

and down the California coast and concluded her mostly joy-filled career forming new

teachers at the University of Portland in Oregon. In retirement, she directs Collegium, a

national colloquy on faith and intellectual life for some 60 Catholic colleges and

universities in North America. Karen has published two collections of essays drawn from

lessons she learned via the students in her classrooms, A Month of Mondays and ...