Let me throw out a (ahem) hypothetical situation. . . Say (again, just for the sake of this entirely hypothetical situation) that this week I took over the department’s internship program. Pretend I have the power to approve or reject any internship that would earn a student academic credit from the history department. Say a […]
[Continue reading...]When difficult letters become easy
August 17, 2011 By
It may not always be apparent from this blog, but when I put my mind and heart to it, I can write quite well. I usually overcome writer’s block pretty quickly, too. But not this time. I’ve been trying for months to write a letter to my grandmother because I want to thank her for […]
[Continue reading...]Love this
August 7, 2011 By
Regular readers know I’m not a big fan of shows of patriotism and that I’m uneasy about certain kinds of Christianity in public contexts, but I found this really touching:
[Continue reading...]On Lecture Capture
August 1, 2011 By
This past week I received an e-mail alerting me that, because I teach in a particular classroom, I can have access to lecture capture this fall. The e-mail, from the campus’s tech folks, reported that of students with access to this technology, 70 percent watched at least one capture per week, and 78 percent of […]
[Continue reading...]Becoming active
July 20, 2011 By
Photo by Richard Yuan, and used under a Creative Commons license I joined the student rec center yesterday, and today I went to work out in a fitness center for maybe the third time in my life. I’ve never enjoyed exercising inside, but then again I’ve tended to live in places where I can ride […]
[Continue reading...]Nine
July 20, 2011 By
Nine years ago today, Fang and I vowed that we would support one another for better or worse, for richer or poorer, through sickness and health. Challenges not mentioned specifically: survival of a fledgling, and therefore dysfunctional, graduate program loss of a beloved dog, and adoption and relinquishment of a troubled one fifteen months without […]
[Continue reading...]A Pulitzer Prize winner comes out as undocumented
June 22, 2011 By
This is a really powerful video. There are millions of stories similar to this one, only attached to less prominent names. You can read the rest of Vargas’s story at Define American.
[Continue reading...]Sesame Street and radical acceptance
June 21, 2011 By
Cross-posted at The Multicultural Toybox I grew up with Sesame Street. As a child, I loved the colorful sketches and songs, and pretty much any scene that had a Muppet in it, but especially if it featured my then-favorite, lovable, furry old Grover. (Today I’m more of a Cookie Monster fan.) These days, when I […]
[Continue reading...]Fang’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Era
June 20, 2011 By
Fang has had a hard week. And month. And year. But this last week was a bitch. First, there was my pneumonia, which required him to step up to do all the parenting. Second, he found a new dentist–one he really likes. However, after years of well-meaning dentists who used a Pickett’s Charge strategy in […]
[Continue reading...]A little gift from Google
June 17, 2011 By
Check it out–if you type the word gay, followed by a space, into Google’s search box, Google gives you a splash of color to the far right: It reminded me a bit of the tilt search term Easter egg.
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