Bardiac

One of my colleagues retired this spring, and is emptying out his office. When O started out, he studied Old English, medieval lit, and lin...

Last year, the college of my kind of studies had a retreat at a local men's club. Yeah, supposedly they have women members, but the nam...

Flipping through the internet news the other day, I saw that a famous singer in her mid-20s, Amy Winehouse, has emphysema. Emphysema is, to...

Hilaire over at Clashing Hats blogged recently about having a migraine, and most especially, being still new in her area and feeling that s...

I was listening to a lecture on industrialization the other day, learning how much more and stronger steel could be churned out with a new p...

On the last trip before I left Japan, we visited Mt. Fuji, which was, as you'd expect, cool. As you might not expect, given the season,...

Back a while, I talked about listening to lectures on podcasts. One of the lecturers talked about an assignment, and the assignment sounded...

That's me! I went to the office the other day to take care of a few office things, and could overhear a colleague doing incoming student...

I went to visit a friend this evening, and took a CD with some pictures to show. It took a while and a few false starts, so the CD wasn...

Last year, I thought about retirement issues and actually went and talked to the campus retirement person . I've waiting until I got h...

I've been reading Chaucer again, with my old book, and got to thinking about the regional university where I first took English classes....

The best thing about being home is catching up with friends. I do okay travelling and all, but it's a real pleasure to visit with a fri...

I started rereading The Canterbury Tales yesterday. I'm teaching Chaucer again for the first time in four+ years, so I have some serio...

Old Bike: Hey, you're back. Where were you this winter. I was cold and lonely! New Bike: Good to be back! I was stuck on my seat, u...

I've been frustrated all day that I just can't find John Heywood's Fair Maid of the West plays ANYWHERE. doh. Happily, I'v...

On the flight home, I saw a couple movies (because I couldn't sleep), one of them so bad it was almost good. Remember that Frank Zappa ...

This! (Hawthorne tree blooming!) Dogwood in bloom. Bleeding Heart, too! Yellow German Bearded Irises (well, something like that) And a sing...

We were on a tour with 30+ folks from the US. Most were friendly enough and easy to get along with. However, I'm surprised how many peo...

You've probably seen this all over the place. If not, here goes. The top 100 or so books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’...

This is the Daibutsu, Great Buddha, of Todaiji Temple, in Nara. The statue is 45 feet tall, and lovely beyond compare. It lives in the lar...