Today I hoped to accomplish a small handful of things which included, but was not limited to all the laundry walking the dog making soup for dinner writing a blog post I think anyone would agree this is a very small handful of things. It is not even a real handful, I think– which also […]
Read moreIn collecting his wife’s diaries for publication, Leonard Woolf wrote, “At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer, because, as Virginia Woolf herself remarks somewhere in these diaries, one gets into the habit of recording one particular kind of mood– irritation or misery, say– and of not […]
Read moreI’ve posted something over there on the other blog. You can go read that if you’d like. If you do, read the Other Things, too. You won’t be sorry.
Read moreO Reader. I doubt that any of you come here anymore, but just in the least little chance of a case that you do, I think some explanation is in order. School is out, which means days and days of wide open space for me, time like I never know it during the school year. […]
Read moreO Reader, I have no excuse. Here I am at the tail end of a four-day weekend, a weekend full of thoughtfulness and quiet and also joyous celebration (not to mention an Easter-basket-hunt during which Everett received a serious blow to the head and the baskets themselves were discovered in a bathtub), a weekend of […]
Read moreI enjoy quite a few blogs on this here internet these days. I don’t get to read them everyday: most of the time my daily labors prevent such pleasures. But occasionally I get to Go Look. Some of the blogs I visit for the lovely pictures and for the idealized lives created on the page. […]
Read moreI’ve come to face the facts: for real communication on the internet, Facebook is where it’s at. This is not entirely great news for me. To me, Facebook is… Prickly. Awkward. Not entirely User Friendly, as they say. I go there and find all sorts of information that I cannot use (updates that come to […]
Read moreIt’s Sunday night, and it’s been a Weekend. I didn’t have much planned, which was good, and neither did Bill, which was also good, because our children had plans, and these kept us busy. Two playdates, one sleepover, one birthday party (for two people) and a middle school dance. Oh, and youth group. Yep. Busy. […]
Read moreI just posted something over here. I could, I realize, post it here, too, but I am not going to do that. So if you’d like to read it (and, by scrolling down one post) see a Very Hilarious video of my friends’ son Luke, then you must leave this blog and go to that […]
Read moreI have a big day ahead of me. A Big Day. I have about twelve papers left to grade, then a few residual make-up work things to grade, and then I proceed to write comments for report cards. I don’t mind any of this. I really don’t. I am eager to teach my students to […]
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