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We ran a test, semi-scientifically and everything. My guests brought something called a "wine clip," which is a magnet device that...

This made me laugh : Amy Sedaris Seems to have a book out entitled I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence . Here's a suggestion: ...

Happy Thanksgiving! I used to love Thanksgivings when I was a kid. Now, I tend to stress over things, worry them to death, and I really shou...

My first year writing students are doing their class presentations for their research papers now, and by golly, they've been doing a rea...

We have a requirement for lit majors here at NWU for one class on "Women's Literature." Now, when I see that requirement, I t...

The Bush administration has appointed Eric Keroak to head up the federal Office of Population Affairs . That's the office that's su...

I've been feeling out of sorts for about a couple of weeks now, the culmination (or current culmination, more aptly) of something not gr...

Thanks for all the encouraging and kind comments about the research paper assignment . I really needed some encouragement this week, and in ...

At some point, our department decided that all our first year writing courses should include a research assignment of some kind. Our goals a...

A quick question for those in the blogger know: I used to end up with comments emailed to me, but in the past couple days, there have been c...

Ethelred II has, in my humble opinion, the best epithet of any English King, including Farmer George. He's usually known as Ethelred th...

I went home yesterday to grade on the couch, and just couldn't get warm. You know the feeling, just cold through and through, and can...

I saw this up at Ancrene Wiseass . Your results: You are Jean-Luc Picard Jean-Luc Picard 80% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 65% Mr. Sul...

I just had a chat with a colleague. This morning, she'd talked eagerly about a student doing a research project, how smart the student i...

I've been slow to talk about the election returns because I'm of two minds. Most of the candidates I voted for (or would have voted...

My book group is reading Emma Donaghue's Slammerkin now, and I just finished it the other day (Harcourt, 2002). I'm unenthused, th...

I have a sickness. It doesn't so much bother me, but it drives my students batty. You see, I love metrical jokes and such. It's p...

More than once, I've insisted that I'd be perfectly happy to have snow from December 23rd to January 3rd. But when the first snow of...

Every so often, I'm struck anew by my strangeness in a strange land. I'm a transplant, and I'm afraid it still shows. The other ...

I taught Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl (Eastgate, 1995) for the first time in ages recently. I had my first exposure to the text way...