Not of General Interest

In " Why People Are So Awful Online," Roxane Gay pinpoints something that we've been talking about for a while and completely...

Long time, no see! Following xykademiqz and gwinne , here's a 5-minute update post: Even if I don't get any vacation again this year...

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

 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...

 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 ...

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

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

 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 ...

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

This isn't a traditional year-end post. There aren't any lists of accomplishments, because it feels as though I didn't do anythi...

 Briefly, because I don't want to give this much more house room:  Some critic at the National Review , AKA a man with a lot of opinions...

 This may be a blogtime first for the number of days between posts--sorry. This is a catching up and promising to do better post.  First of ...

 If you're a mom, or a teacher, or have a certain kind of organizational brain, you're used to this:  Mom version:  Day 1. "Mom...

 We're halfway through the semester, and so far the Great Online Experiment is going--as well as can be expected?  In The Invisible Wom...

 Time expands and contracts at a different rate now, as I'm definitely not the first to notice. Here are some random bullets until I can...

I have a syllabus to do (don't we all right now?), but here are a few more pictures from the little house. As you can see, the furniture...

(This may be a temporary post because of the pictures, but I'm so happy that you want to hear about my little writing house.) The New Yo...

What is happening in the fall? It's official: our undergrad courses are online in the fall unless there's some really pressing nee...

Are you finding you're having good weeks and bad weeks in coping mentally with the way we live now? This isn't meant to be a compl...

There's a steady drumbeat across the land. Do you hear it? It's called "what are you doing in the fall?" and unlike the ...