Saturday, May 01, 2021

Making it look easy/it's not as easy as it looks

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An anecdote, or maybe a parable, about academe.  If you have a large extended family, and that large extended family has gatherings periodic...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

NYTimes's Adam Grant on Languishing : When you've lost that (writing) feeling

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 At first I didn't click on Adam Grant's "There's a Name for the Blah You're Feeling " because I thought it was my...
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Monday, April 05, 2021

The function of criticism at the present time, or how not to behave, NBC

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 No, this is not a Matthew Arnold fan post. It's about meanness for the sake of meanness on the interwebs. You may have seen this a few ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

What's getting you through this spring? The mental grout theory of coping.

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Some things are looking up. They really are. Want proof? People are getting vaccinated (including me, hooray!). The days are getting longer....
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Monday, March 15, 2021

Conferences: Might as well face it, you're addicted to sloth

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What usually happens in the spring? Pay attention to conference calls for papers. Go to meetings on campus. Prep class. Grade papers. Try to...
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Monday, February 15, 2021

Snow and writing

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 The snow is snowing all around, It falls on field and tree, It falls on all our parkas here And on the ships at sea.     With apologies to ...
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Sunday, February 07, 2021

Random bullets of settling in to 2021: Things are looking up!

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 Happy New Year! Who had armed takeover of the Capitol by violent white supremacist Trump worshippers & Trump's impeachment on their...
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