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Recently, my department had a meeting during which we discussed assessment, specifically, the porfolio type assessment, and more specificall...

In grading procrastination mode this morning, I saw this article in CNN . Apparently, in lovely Woodburn, Indiana, a student newspaper publi...

I did it. I bought a bike. Well, I ordered it, and put money down, but it will be a bit coming. And, it looks like I've decided to go ...

The questions I have the most difficulty with in the classroom have to do with the "why did he do that?" Why does Posthumus in Cym...

I gather that the anti-choice folks have glommed onto some less than reliable research that claimed a link between having an abortion and la...

So, the other day I got an evaluation form from the local medical clinic I go to. I seek to be as medically boring as possible, really, and ...

It's advising season here at NWU. I had a fantastic meeting with a student last week; we put together a schedule so that each of her cla...

Midwife with a Knife tagged me with a meme asking for five reasons why I blog. I've read some other folks' responses to the meme, ...

The press at its best is one of the greatest institutions in the US, no question. A good reporter following a story to tell us what we need...

Last week, news reports talked about Julia Campbell, a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Phillippines who was missing; and then her body was fou...

Over the past several days, I've seen some new yard birds. My first ever pretty much for sure for sure Tree Swallow. (It courteously an...

Every year, we have a campus celebration of English studies, mostly student organized and run, with lots of presentations, talks, readings. ...

As I was going to class, my first after I learned about the tragedy at Virginia Tech, prepped to teach Hughes' "Theme for English B...

My thoughts are with those at Virginia Tech. Chaser is safe, for which news I'm grateful. After hearing the news this afternoon (becau...

I went to a play the other night with a couple of friends. There, I saw a couple of students I know, including one who's a theater type,...

I got my promised post card today from StyleyGeek . Is it wrong that I got all excited even though it has a picture of a frog and not a par...

Kurt Vonnegut has died, I read. Like many who write in the blogosphere, I went through a period when I read a lot of Vonnegut. About the sa...

Some weeks are full of disappointments. I overheard a couple male colleagues talking about their wives the other day in the hallway. I felt ...

I started reading a really fascinating book the other day, Kenneth L. Helphand's Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime . I saw some...

Not bicycles for once. Student cycles. We get a new influx of students every year; they start as first years, and if all goes well, graduat...