Bardiac

a friend called Bunbury.

On Wednesday, I got a mass email from one of the support areas on campus advertising an opportunity, a sort of grant. The application is du...

Everyone needs to go see Quills' wonderful artwork! Here! Run over and watch the budding artist... err... bud! (She already uses color ...

Why do students think that adding three sentences to a D paper will turn it into an A paper? I have my students highlight their revisions, s...

In Spanish, at least where I served, gastro bugs or any bugs, germs, or parasites were called "bichos." I still use "bichos...

I love drama disguise conventions. It's so very silly, and yet because the audience has to recognize the disguised character and not ...

Not the best picture, and the light was going and the Downy Woodpecker wasn't thrilled when my flash went off, but I wanted to get a p...

At some point, I was told or read that Foxe's Acts and Monuments (aka Book of Martyrs ) was commonly taught as an early reading text an...

I had a visitor from one of our student service areas in my first year class today. The idea is that the visitor, a student who's had s...

The Anglican Communion, the overall name for the whole organization that includes the Episcopal church in the US, is in the throes of yet an...

I just graded a brilliantly insightful Crux Buster (the assignment shared with me by Dr. Virago, thanks, Dr. V!). I feel like dancing in the...

I had a flat today. I was out riding with a friend, on a road she'd heard was great riding (and it was). We were going down a sort of ...

Biking shoes, at least mine, are basically mesh on the topside. That's great in summer because the air flowing by and through the mesh ...

I lost it in class today. I'd asked them to pay attention, waited while they chattered. The background chattering continued, again and...

I was in a meeting earlier this week during which a colleague talked a little about the difficulties our students have conceptualizing thems...

One of my students was absent for a couple days, and then came back. And suddenly I realized how much I'd enjoyed the class discussion ...

You'd think that after nearly 20 years of teaching (with a couple years off for various fellowships and such), that I'd have learned...

It got above 30 this morning, so I wrapped up and went for a short ride. I rode reasonably well (for me) and was warm enough. When I finis...

There was snow on the ground this morning. My papers are not closer to being graded than they were yesterday, and I'm in avoidance mode...