A Year of Reading

image via unsplash Some Days by Philip Terman Some days you have to turn off the news and listen to the bird or truck or the neig...

I shouldn't be blogging. I should be grading papers. I should be reading students' blog posts. I should be sending post-confere...

How To Be a Poet (to remind myself) by Wendell Berry Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affectio...

You Are There by Erica Jong You are there. You have always been there. Even when you thought you were climbing you had already...

All around me, esteemed colleagues are reading and reflecting on professional books, tearing through #bookaday books that make them bubbl...

My goal of a TED talk a week with illustrated notes got sideswiped. I decided to give an hour or so of my snow day yesterday to get caught u...