Bardiac

I'm part of a voluntary group through our Be a Better Whatever office on campus for using writing in our classes. The idea is that we d...

If you've listened to or read the transcript of the call from the fake David Koch to the governor, you heard the part where the fake Dav...

At times, the political ups and downs around here verge on farce, but in the most terrifying ways. Or just in weird ways. An Indiana state ...

I have this assignment I give in my poetry classes. I ask students to write a specific sort of poem, and then I ask them to analyze the wri...

News reports of the earthquake are horrific. My thoughts are with the people of New Zealand as they work to rescue their fellows. Report on...

The city plow hasn't made it up to my street yet. I live on a cul-de-sac, and it would take them an extra seven minutes to swing up her...

The troubles here are pretty public. The threats include reducing state workers' pay (in practice) and busting state workers' union...

I went into the yard today, and the guest dog went to a corner of the fence, where I noticed a dead rabbit. Ugh. The rabbit looked like it...

My students don't quite want to say that the Duke in "My Last Duchess" is right to kill the Duchess, but they seem to think sh...

I went to a writing thing for instructors yesterday, part of a series for folks on campus who are interested in using writing more effective...

Someone I know just posted (on FB) what looks to my Shakespearean-trained eyes like an ultra-sound, the sort that shows a fetus in the uteru...

Here I am, in a department full of people with advanced degrees, most of whom teach writing and are supposedly good writers themselves. So w...

I spent some time with a student today who'd gotten a letter from the Fort telling her that in order to get this or that approval, she h...

I'm working on some committee stuff for a meeting later this week. I'm reading course descriptions from different departments. It...

We've gotten bad news from the powers that be this past week. According to all sorts of reports from and to those very powers, the facul...

My nephew took me downhill skiing today. It was my first time in very many years. And it was fun! I have a few observations: it's WAY...

Source: http://xkcd.com/856/

Happily, GrrlScientist put up a much better picture !

I spent the better part of the morning more or less chatting with the handyman and grading. Sometimes there was more chatting, sometimes mo...

I got an email from an administrative office about a program said administrator is putting on about how to avoid unintended racism/sexism, e...