Bardiac

I've been booking a birding trip, theater tickets, train tickets, hotels, and even a symphony ticket. So far, everything looks good. ...

These are the code words these days.  You've probably read the recent article by Jessica Bennet in the New York Times , about an initiat...

As of last night, the floors are laid, sanded, and stained.  At this moment, the floor folks are putting on the second coat of finis...

The wood has arrived!  This is a lot of red oak, and from the great North Woods, I'm told. (My sliding glass door is super dirty...

As I've posted before, I'm getting new hardwood floors in part of the BardiacShack.  That means I have to empty out about half of th...

I've put out several calls for suggestions on facebook recently, and it's amazing how helpful the hivemind is, and how much people k...

I've gotten some of the official paperwork to go teach at the Abbey! So that's feeling more real.  I've started working on syl...

I participated in my first recital today, playing a short piece (Dvorak's Humoresque), one of 5 of my teachers students to play. The w...

When the semester ends, I always seem to sleep for a week.  This year, the weekend seems to have sufficed.  It probably helps that it's ...

The Powers That Be around here let our department chair and personnel chair know last week that they'd be letting every unit put in a re...

And we're back!  At least I'm back.  From Kalamazoo, where I met Dame Eleanor to say hi, and also other medievalists.  I felt good...

I'm in Kalamazoo, pretending to be a bit of a medievalist. And, I got really good news today.  Back in 2011, I did a semester of teach...

I've been involved in a couple searches recently, from a variety of angles.  For each of them, some NWU adjuncts* applied.  And none of ...

We had a big poetry reading last night, the main rule of which was that the poem/passage not be in Modern English. So, I read a passage, a...

We have two more weeks of classes, then finals, and then, yes, it's spring.  For real. I had a great time at Birding School, and learn...

Some months ago now, in that fantasy time when spring seems like it will be reasonable, I signed up for bird school at a local nature reserv...

This coming week, my senior seminar students will turn in their essay drafts (to our course management system, in the discussion area, where...

I was looking at the CVs of applicants for a deanling position here, and one of the CVs lists a book out from Scholar's Press.  So I loo...

As regular readers know, in February 2016, I started violin lessons.  One of the cool byproducts is that it's got me thinking about bein...

You know how a fair number of the young folks you see on campus are looking at their phones at any given time?  What are they looking at? ...