I recently learned that my kids have the habit of turning this hectopus (a toy they've each played with since…
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…