November 27, 2007 – 11:41 pm
Perhaps you might consider it cheating (me creating something new each week and using something that I’ve written a couple years ago) but it’s on my mind. It’s a part of a much longer piece that I wrote at the (get ready, lots of initials and capitalized words coming your way) Indiana Teachers of Writing [...]
November 27, 2007 – 4:52 pm
I’m looking at a draft post that I never did finish. It’s about how I was getting frustrated with switching to a certain browser for specific tasks. Call me old-fashioned, but I want it my way and that way (in my perfect world) is that one browser should be able to do all of my [...]
November 25, 2007 – 10:55 pm
We’re back from the 9th annual family gathering of the Bickels (Lois’ parents and Lois’ brother, his wife [Jinger] and their son), the Certalics (Jinger’s parents) and us on Thanksgiving weekend in Schaumburg, IL (home of the Woodfield Mall<= really big).
And, for the last 9 years, we had all read the same book and had [...]
November 20, 2007 – 8:05 pm
I’ve just finished a proposal for a grant that would allow me to be in Nunavut, Canada for over a week to see the the bare landscape of “Arctic” Canada and an incredible section of Baffin Island where Inuksuk are plentiful.
I’ve been taken by these stone structures and find that I often build some makeshift [...]
November 13, 2007 – 9:45 pm
I’m going to avoid a nifty post about how sometimes students’ papers are much like “flaming bags of poop”; partly because my last “Coffee Stain” was about plumbing, but mostly because it’s the humor that my sons really like.
So, instead, I’d like to tell you about what prompted Spencer to ask (or retort):
“So, you should [...]
November 8, 2007 – 6:32 pm
Sometimes, you just have to put on a costume and dub yourself royalty.
November 6, 2007 – 5:26 pm
Salvete, discipulae et discipuli!
Sometimes I find myself wondering how I got here. This was exactly what was going through my mind last weekend when I was unclogging the upstairs bathroom sink.
I didn’t grow up with any special knowledge of plumbing, but when something is overflowing or making gross noises, I get the nod. Perhaps it’s [...]
