Monday is the first day of the spring term at Northwestern.  It will have been four months, exactly, since I went out to pasture after 37 years at Tribune Tower.

There has been a lot to think about, watching the news industry from the outside since Thanksgiving.  Ultimately, I suspect educators and entrepreneurs together will have to come up with the tools and the ideas that help news professionals sustain not only journalism, but also the kind of society that wants or needs journalism.

And so, off to the Medill School of Journalism I go.  One miracle at a time.