Not of General Interest

or a writing chalet , to be exact. It was across the road from his house at Gad's Hill, and he got there via a specially dug tunnel un...

Over at Dame Eleanor's writing group , here's what I said I would do: --Main goal: finish two partially drafted chapters of the bo...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that in teaching you have to  spend time now to make time later for what you want to do. Today I sp...

Profgrrrl's post   about wanting to buy (but not really needing) school supplies like paper and pens hit home for me. I want to buy som...

We've all read those studies that show that students make up their minds about professors in the first 90 seconds and don't really c...

On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being "I have to say something" and 5 being "eh, maybe I should just be amused," how would you...

Bardiac has been to a workshop that changed her mind about the way she teaches.  Here's some of what she heard: According to the rese...

Here's what's been helping with writing lately: Standing up. When caffeine just can't get you over that early afternoon sl...

When it takes you several days to read a reasonably short book written in what ought to be pretty straightforward prose. When a character...

Via Nicoleandmaggie, " The Chaos of Writing."  "A sample:  When I first started to write, I got into the habit of playing m...

A few bullet points with comments. The president of McGraw-Hill predicts that "campuses will be completely digital" in 3 years. ...

I've been thinking about Ianqui's recent post about a flap in Brooklyn when a beer garden allowed families to bring their kids alo...

Take two pieces of scholarly writing, the multi-level beast and a different piece. The multi-level beast has been fighting me (see Laocoon...

In The New York Times, Andrew Hacker asks "Is Algebra Necessary?" and says it's not. Using pejorative language like "p...

Short version of the last couple of weeks: I cooked for lots of people every day, shopped for groceries, picked up and dropped off people at...

I've been working on a chapter for quite a while now and blew past my self-imposed deadline for it a couple of weeks ago. The substance ...

I'm starting to feel as though this poor blog is turning into a soapbox from which I continually yell "hey, kids, get off my lawn a...

Tenured Radical has a good post up about one of my favorite topics, handwriting ; she'd like to know (1) the reason behind the poor han...

Back in the 1960s, after a lot of well-documented studies of abuses in mental health institutions and the warehousing of people within them,...

So what's happening besides noticing that everyone seems to have a little promotional tag on their multi-line email signature line these...