Bardiac

1.  5000+ miles in about 17 days is a lot.  (I drove the first two-thirds or so in three days, then was mostly not driving for four days, an...

My Mom and I are on a road trip now, and we went to Mt. St. Helens.  Unfortunately, the mountain was a bit shy.   But here's wh...

I spent much of today in a flat place.  A very big flat place, thought not entirely flat. And then I got to a less flat place. And n...

I'm sharing some pictures of the garden, but just so you remember, here's the picture I took in early June .  (I was a little late g...

Back before the latest budget crisis, our union, the one that's not allowed to bargain collectively on our behalf, sent out a questionna...

I had a pretty much perfect weekend. It started Friday afternoon, when I read that there's a Northern Mockingbird nesting in the area,...

My facebook feed is full of rainbows today.  What an amazing thing, eh?

The other night, folks were reporting seeing the Northern Lights in the upper Midwest.  And so, last night, when the viewing was supposed to...

I posted here when I was thinking about making my Intro to Lit course include all authors who are people of color.  And thanks to all your ...

I went to our local Juneteenth celebration on Friday.  I hadn't gone before, but this year it seemed important to go, so I did.  The ...

According to my fitbit thing, I walked about 8000 steps cleaning the garage today.  I mostly emptied it out, swept, then threw a couple o...

That's the biking term for when you have a day when you're just not riding well.  (It's French, of course, and means basically a...

This summer, I again said I'd help with an assessment task.  It's basically the same task I blogged about here and here last summe...

I'm trying to think through how the Berube and Ruth's proposal might work here in flyover country, where most of our contingent fac...

I thought it would be helpful to me, at least, to try to keep track of some of the recent conversations around the Teaching Intensive Tenure...

I've finally put the rest of the plan into the garden.  I've added carrots a while back, and yesterday added some summer squash, zuc...

I emailed some colleagues the other day to suggest that we get together to celebrate a beautiful summer week, and was surprised to get an em...

Fie Upon this Quiet Life blogged today about the recent Chronicle of Higher Ed article by Michael Berube and Jennifer Ruth.   In their ar...

Our writing center is doing a faculty retreat this week.  It started at 9:30 on Tuesday, and runs to 2pm, every day except Friday, when it e...

My lower division course on early Brit Lit had low, low enrollment, so I got reassigned to an Intro to Lit course.  I was expecting it, and ...