Bardiac

 Last weekend, I went to a state conservation education program on Monarch butterflies.  We learned about butterfly biology and migration, a...

 I finished painting the bench (see this one and also this other one for previous bench adventures), and with help from a visiting grad sc...

I'm late to the game, of course, but when I subscribed to the streaming service to watch the Tour de France, I also gained access to Yel...

 In 2018, I did this project to make my wood bench look better.  I started with this: I sanded and primed and painted and got this: It look...

In April or so, a friend of mine told me about an acquaintance who's going through a painful divorce and was looking for a place to stay...

Today I went to the Great River Shakespeare Festival production of The Winter's Tale , and it was stellar.  I so enjoyed it!  Paulina w...

Yesterday, I went to the brand new Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival 's production of As You Like It , in Eau Claire, at the newish Pablo C...

Ahhh, retirement!  I went to As You Like It at the Great River Shakespeare Festiva l in Winona, MN.  I haven't been to the GRSF for a l...

 When I was in CA recently, I visited one of my favorite places, Big Basin State Park .  I haven't been there since some cousins and I w...

 I was in the SF Bay Area last week, and saw this:     Several friends quickly identified it as a new Tesla truck .  And one of my cousins s...

 It's been a while.  Let's just say that there's so much unbloggable stuff for a chair, and anything that's bloggable is bor...

 Or lack thereof? I'm usually moderately excited to be teaching new courses every fall, to be seeing students, and so on.  Planning my c...

I had a meeting with one of our HR folks about retirement stuff, making sure I understand what I need to understand, when to do things, and ...

 We've come back "under contract" now, and so it's time to get ready for the new school year.  We have two weeks til class...

Since a couple of people kindly asked, yes, indeed, I'm planning to retire during summer of 2023. As to what I'll do when I retire? ...

 I've been chair for two years now, and am looking into the final year before I retire.  So this is a little weird.  Everything for the ...

It's been a while. I sort of posted a what's up post in January .  My Mom spent the last of December and the first third of January ...

 I was in one of those meetings with people where we were supposed to talk about assessment stuffs, and the question came up:  Assume you ha...

We just finished spring break, but it didn't feel like much of a break.  I went to visit my Mom and things remain pretty much as they ar...

Things continue on.  My Mom's really not improving, and my expectations are that she won't.   My brother is amazing, and continues t...