The F. Scott Fitzgerald story "Head and Shoulders" features this unfamiliar phrase, spoken by a young actress who, through an…
Tomorrow I will be teaching some Harlem Renaissance poets in my American Literature class, so this reflection on the function…
It's comforting to know that I'm not alone. Like many writing teachers, I put a lot of effort into asking…
I threw a muscle in my shoulder while furiously blogging a record of a committee meeting.
A happy apple cyclops, with a marshmallow eye and banana teeth. My daughter's creation. Update, 12 Feb: Carolyn, noting the…
This term, I teach two sections of "Seminar in Thinking and Writing," the second course in our two-course freshman writing…
Looking forward to a good discussion of a complex story. via Fitzgerald, "The Ice Palace".
I work so closely with words that I sometimes have to force myself to remember that there are other ways…
An unexpected and unwanted text message from a wireless company prematurely exploded a would-be suicide bomber’s vest bomb in Russia…