Chapter 10: Two Years And Four Issues Later

Recently, I looked back over my first two years as editor of vinculum. I would like to take this opportunity and elaborate on some of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs I have encountered and, in doing so, hopefully, help to generate some discussion within the mathematics education community.

In October 2008, as the newly appointed liaison between the University of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers’ Society (SMTS), I found myself at the society’s annual general meeting. During the meeting it was announced that the SMTS was looking for a new editor for their journal. Once the meeting was adjourned, I mentioned, casually, to a few of the individuals I was sitting with (at the back of the room), that I had, at a point prior, thought about the position of editor. (To be honest, what happened next is still sort of a blur.) Unintentionally, and unexpectedly I had volunteered for the position, had been quickly vetted, and, subsequently, right then and there, was appointed the new editor of the journal! I left the meeting an accidental-editor.