Hi John, What a great example of self assessment and personal as well as professional development. Your description of where you are professionally as a result of life issues and family challenges is a common one for many of us. The key is you recognize it and are working toward expanding your instructional expertise. By doing so you can meet the first point of your forum comment and that is the provision of customer/student service. The thing to do is to concentrate on one part of instructional development and once that is accomplished then move to another. It is like the saying "How do you eat an elephant?" "One bite at a time." Before long the elephant will be gone. I wish you much teaching success. Gary