Recently, someone in my former field interviewed me about being retired. I told her I preferred to think of myself as unemployed. After I quit…
I feel as if I am tilting against windmills. It’s a little late in life to be attacking these sort of things, but I can’t…
I’m keeping the syllabus conversation going. Below is an edited response to Bill Thelin, one of my good friends, who spends, I think, a fair…
I’m working through grief about Ali. I’ve been here before–or at least in a place too much like this one, but that doesn’t make the…
I have finished taking notes on Laura Micciche’s Doing Emotion. Her book was well worth my reading. I appreciated most of what she wrote. And…
Two things of interest this morning: First is that I find it easier to write in here (i mean in this blog space) than I…
I have had a few difficult experiences in the past several days, not the least of which has been my ill-advised zinger on plagiarism on…
I’m becoming more comfortable with simply writing something down here and in an uncritical moment, clicking on publish–of course I can think later and come…
Now this is interesting–to me at least: I just want to write a short blog entry today–nothing serious, and I found myself preferring to write…