State of Mind:

(I wrote this on Saturday, but I didn't have permission to post it until today.) I don't recall my first memories of my great-aunt...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the  absolute importance of introductory classes.   I have taught introductory classes in composition...

I can't believe how the semester has already gained so much steam that regularly updating this blog as to the really exciting things tha...

I don't actually teach till tomorrow, but today is the first day of what looks like will be a stupendous semester.  Lots of fun things g...

Happy New Year! I'm back in Lincoln, getting ready for the new semester, sitting in my lovely red desk chair on a floor that is not qu...

Winter Break is here!  There's not much winter in Nebraska, but I'm soon heading North and there's snow up there.  I can't w...

There's a redhot ball of grief in the center of my chest right now, grown prickles overnight, an absolute inability to...

It's the dark of the morning, the first real cold day we've had in Lincoln thus far, and I seem to have forgotten what sev...

It's been a while since I've posted--and I realize I've posted nothing as we've been reading Sarah Vowell's Assassinatio...