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- A Cup of Tea with My Knitting, Please — A former student on knitting, newlywed life, and other matters
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- The Misadventures of Katie — a bass-playing Clash fan and former student
- The Port Stands At Your Elbow
- Themes
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- Thoughts Inserted Here — A former advisee considers things.
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
A Potpourri Daily Double
Gordon Gee, former president at Vandy and West Virginia U, currently heads up (The) Ohio State University. He finds himself in some uncomfortably warm water these days, thanks to a recording of some comments he made at an OSU athletic … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Music
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SFWA Cribs
Mrs. M and I have radically different tastes in entertainment, but we can find a few patches of common ground. For example, the occasional show on HGTV makes for a decent compromise — but not any of the DIY-home-improvement shows, … Continue reading
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My Time as a Fellow Traveler: A Brief Memoir
One of my first serious relationships took place when I was doing my M.A., a couple of girlfriends before Mrs. M. She was a lefty, rebelling against wealthy parents and her prior membership in what amounted to a high school … Continue reading
Posted in Why I Do What I Do
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Update from an Old Alma Mater
Not quite two months back, I mentioned that there had been some tension at the school where I had done my first two years of undergrad, and that a significant portion of it revolved around tenure issues. Apparently it’s worse … Continue reading
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Memorial Day
For Sgt. James Michial Moore, USA, KIA, Vietnam, and those before and after. And once again: Archibald MacLeish was an ambulance driver and artilleryman in World War I, and his brother, a naval aviator, was killed in 1918. This poem … Continue reading
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How Twigs Get Bent: Klop…
I’ve previously mentioned my love of comics, which I inherited from my dad and passed to the Spawn. My dad would go to the local drugstore each week and buy one of every title in the spinner rack — typically … Continue reading
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About Six Hours North of Here…
…Lies the city of Roanoke, VA. I presented a paper up there once at a conference, and thought it was a pretty interesting city. Roanoke is home to one of Mondoville’s sister colleges and a remarkably cool old hotel. It’s … Continue reading
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