State of Mind:

My brain is very full right now, mostly in a good way.  It's partly, also, very full in a way I hoped would never happen.  Gram passed a...

I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted--and I can't believe it's the end of Week 4 already.  But I've bee...

To tell the truth, I'm slightly terrified.  I've never done a Writing Marathon before and I'm not convinced that doing my first ...

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 ...