It is my intention--that is, I intend--to blog every day in the year 2012. So check back here as often as you like: I will have fresh goods.

Here are the books I bought/read in 2011, in no particular order: susan hill: all the inspector simon serailler series. the first I rea...

This year, I saw the following movies, not in order (notes on each, with "!"s where I particularly liked the film): hangover ...

The historian and I are planning to walk the length of the Jordan River Parkway over the next few weeks. This was the first section. Actuall...

And you know what that means--the grading has ceased! Last night at about 10:15 p.m., I finished my reading, for better or for worse, of th...

lopsided Christmas tree, so festive you've made these last portfolios!

Yesterday, at the Oasis, I saw Patrick Fugit. I had to put on my glasses to double check. I said to my companion Kati, "I'm not sur...

Here's what I've been doing: 1. getting ready to grade 2. chasing after rainbows, by which I mean the chimerical student with his...

Christmas Tree. I will get one. by lisab

On Sunday, I noted the faintest dust of snow drifting lazily down and asked myself: shall I go out or shall I stay in? and more importantly,...

Me, to the historian, while the television is muted during a commercial break whilst watching The Good Wife : Guess how much work I got don...

Still have drafts to read, assignments to grade, comments to bestow, consultations to hold, but today I made waffles for breakfast, which we...

Like today, for instance. Knowing that there was a race against the clock, printer-wise, and that while there was a good faith promise to ge...

Today, the issue of Folio arrived from the printers. The student staff and I were kind of excited to see it. Tomorrow is the issue launch a...

Sundance Catalog: why fingerless gloves? *** Tinychat: what is "please do not spam/flood the chat"?

TO : Student, whom I like quite a bit and who is still in the game at this late point in the semester, so...there's that. FROM: Profe...

When I was little, the thing I wanted most out of all life was a pair of red shoes. And also to be Mary Poppins, which I think we can all ag...

Why does blogging seem like a big question mark, wrapped in briars, right now? I don't give a damn about the blogging zeitgeist. I have ...

1. there are two kinds of bread at our house. 2. the movie Take Shelter . 3. that there is a French detective novel waiting for me to read...

At home, 4:30 p.m., after a long long long day. Me, already prone, reading: Will you turn on that light? No, wait. Historian, with hand on t...