State of Mind:

This week has been a revelation to me, filled with two full days of new faculty orientation and two days of full faculty workshops.  On We...

First, start here, with listening to Richard Wilbur, reading his poem "The Writer." If you want the full text of the poem, c...

I'm back!  This summer has not been a good one for posting, something I really wanted to do during my summer 254 (which was absolutely i...

Yesterday was a fun day in 254.  It's nearly the end of Week 2 of 5 and though we've gotten fairly comfortable with each other, sinc...

Today, my students are turning in their Field Reports that they did over the place they chose for their first Writing Project (the rough dra...

Happy Father's Day--to all the fathers and grandfathers, by blood, by choice, by serendipity.  There are so many ways we create family...

Yesterday was the first day of class for the first summer session and I met my 254 class for the first time.  I had eleven registered, nine ...

This morning, as I'm finalizing my syllabus for my English 254: Writing and Communities, which starts next Monday, I'm thinking abou...

As I write this, my parents are in Florida for my godfather's funeral, who died suddenly of a heart attack last Wednesday, and my three-...

All this happened in the span of thirty minutes: ...I packed up my 3-year-old niece and 3-month-old nep...