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I just thought of an awesome comeback to something a classmate said to me in 1982.

Like a lot of Gen X college instructors, I'm often at a loss for how to deal with the effects of student stress, anxiety, and general me...

At least I hope it's just a cold. I've been coughing a lot the last day or two, so I don't know if it's getting worse or tur...

In the week or so leading up to the beginning of the fall semester, I've cut back a lot on my use of LinkedIn, which is my only remainin...

I was going to write up my resolutions for the new academic year as I've done in the past , but I noticed that last year I didn't r...

As I have mentioned a couple of times , I'm going to be participating in a roundtable on the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association in Chi...

Spring break is almost over for me, and if I had one, my to-do list would still be full. I didn't clean my study. I didn't finish th...

Besides grading, I'm avoiding three things that all would be good for me. One is doing some stretching (or even physical therapy) for my...

It occurred to me this morning to change the name of my offline journal, which I've been keeping for the better part of 20 years. Right ...

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this--you spend hours, days, weeks, months... reading the archived correspondence of your biographic...

My course materials are "published" ahead of time--classes start Wednesday, although I don't need to meet with in-person stude...

So after writing about my resolution yesterday, I stayed up until after 2:00 this morning working on my course materials for the new semeste...

I did this last year , I see, so I'm going to end the year with a note on my somewhat unambitious resolutions for the 2025-26 academic ...

Since professional development funds in my college have been cut by 80% and the new purchasing/reimbursement system is unnecessarily baroque...

I just emailed a draft of the third chapter I am working on to my partners. I am not confident in it, but at least it's done. Now I can ...

I see I did one of these last year about this time . I did do some reading, but I don't think I used the commuter rail time to read--thi...

I managed to finish a draft of the second chapter that I'm responsible for and sent it off on the 9th, but I haven't made much progr...

Just a note here to let all of my reader know that I'm still around. I've been working on my book chapter drafts, trying to crank ou...

I've already written a bit about this book here and here , so I won't say much about it here. I'll just note that, yes, the las...

I've got tons of things that I should be doing right now (as usual), but on the way home from shopping, I caught some of this interview ...