One of the things I love about an academic life is how many chances for reflection, renewal, and rebirth there are. Each term is a chance for rebirth, and we also get the rhythms of the calendar year. It is following…
Tag: Writing
I’ll Burn My Syllabus
A pedagogy that cannot respond to change is at best a zombie pedagogy. Monday morning I came in to my office to learn that Seamus Heaney had died over the weekend. Because one of my goals in my Introduction to…
The Best Plan
written for today’s ds106 Daily Create. If I were given a do-over for today, I have to say that I’d wake up earlier, start writing sooner and write and write and write. (But I’d probably sleep later and eat more chocolate.)…
Blog Post: Why I Like Writing In Airports…
Airports are infuriating, but they can also be inspired. Read more at Poets’ Quarterly…
Mindful Writing Challenge 21
the moment the white patch on the sidewalk become the snowy sidewalk patched with darkened gray goes unnamed in the urge to holler snow— ______________(I do ____(shout snow (I do— Related articles A Warning of the Perils of Praise. small…
Mindful Writing Challenge 2
the contraction of the heart when the spider confronted transforms into a crack in eggshell plaster has not yet slowed Related articles Mindful Writing Challenge ~ January 2012 ~ Small Stone 1(journalread.wordpress.com) Mindful Writing Challenge Jan ’13(zguta.wordpress.com) Mindful Writing Challenge…