Bardiac

In fall 2013, I decided to plant some crocus bulbs in a pattern on my lawn.  Here's a post about it  the next spring, when things were c...

I just learned that one of my friends in administration at another school has lost their job due to the budget cuts. Back when I first got...

This weekend, while I was out walking around looking at birds, I was also looking at garbage.  And picking it up.  Without wandering from my...

I went out and birded a grassy area today and saw my first Savannah Sparrows (many of them, here's one, in two shots), and some Sandhil...

  I left work this afternoon after extended office hours and went out to a local birding spot.  There were a fair number of birds out, in...

One of my students was so brilliant today; we were discussing "The Prioress's Tale," and he talked about how he'd hated it...

There's this activity, a poetry related activity, that someone organizes every year.  I've participated in the past , more than once...

... not whether I will become insufferable, but just how insufferable I will become. I just got a fitbit thing.  And I'm unreasonably ...

I put the first plants of the year in the raised beds today.  First I dug them up (or, as the weeds think of it, gave them a deep massage),...

The concert I mentioned here happened this week. Luciano, Dean, and Beverly were fantastic.  I was good enough, too.  Maybe even a bit be...

This morning, I half caught an NPR story about a pastor talking about whether or not she'd baptize a baby of a lesbian couple.  So then ...

I caught a bit of an NPR interview this afternoon, and it irritated me enough that I went back to look at it when I got home.  It's an i...

I'm doing a concert.  Yes, me.  Here, on campus.  It's probably not what you think, but it's tomorrow. A voice faculty member,...

Meet the two newest members of the BardiacShack household!   They're red pines, and they're about 3 feet tall right now, m...

Yesterday, my Chaucer class had its second day on "The Clerk's Tale."  I'd put together a handout with passages to look at...

I was teaching "The Clerk's Tale" the other day, and wanted to talk a bit about how the rhyme royal stanza works as a stanza. ...

Trying to get back in the swing.  Everything, it seems, must be done by early next week, if not sooner. I have a list, and am checking thi...

At the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA, to those on a first name basis) today, there was a session called the "NextGenPlen,...

SAA is happening NOW! On one of my flights, the safety video had all these visual jokes, usually after the basic statement.  I have to con...

I recently read a post from another blogger complaining about some funding cuts to his university/program.  The blogger sounded genuinely ir...