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I'm listening to workmen playing Steely Dan and tearing out some rotten wood from the soffit. ("Soffit" is a word I just learn...

How do you write about the cool things you've found in the archives without making your paper sound like it should be titled, "Cool...

We had a virtual English Department meeting today. After we got off Zoom, we all ran into each other on the way to the restroom.

The summer is over, so I'm getting ready for the semester that starts next Wednesday. (Yikes!) I came across this video on YouTube and w...

I finished my grading this week for the summer class just in time to start getting ready for the fall semester that starts September 8. In t...

The summer is almost at an end (though since I've been teaching for the past seven weeks, it ended a long time ago for me). The soon-to-...

This has been the next-to-last week of class, so I've been reading and commenting on paper drafts, conferencing with students, and doing...

Not surprisingly, I didn't get anything done this week on my writing project. In fact, on Monday I woke up thinking about George Kerr an...

Lately, I've been putting more time into writing these notes than I've spent on the paper itself, so that's a sign that I should...

"Seventeen years I've wanted that little item and I've been trying to get it. If we must spend another year on the quest... wel...

I'm back to doing some primary research--close reading of a text I'm using as an "exhibit" (in BEAM terms) to see if I ca...

Not much to report here. Yesterday's work grading had to be put off to today because my internet was out all day yesterday.  Also found ...

I did some grading today and then had a little time to work on my paper. So my son and I drove out to Medfield to check out the old Medfield...

I was too busy deleting mails from my school's in-box yesterday and neglected to catch up on this. (I was just doing that in between app...

Fifty days into my summer writing project and I feel like I've basically given up on it. I've got to do something, though, to try to...

Today I did some grading and other teaching-related work. It's going to be an intense seven weeks, so I don't know how much writing ...

I did my presentation today. I found I'm a bit rusty giving conference presentations (just noticed from looking at my CV that before tod...

Forgot to write last night--today this is going to be short. I'm doing a bit of tuning up to my presentation for tomorrow because I want...

Since yesterday, there's been a lot of discussion on Twitter about one particular "idiom" ( chengyu ) in Xi Jinping's spee...

I just found that 1999 paper that I wrote on doing research on the internet. It was published in a 2000 volume of essays on communication an...