My Puerile Office Stunt

I thought I’d become immune to such things, but looking back, I realize now that some parts of me have not outgrown my Milligan petulance.
I’ve liked Picasso’s Guernica ever since I became aware of it in college, and the painting became especially powerful in my imagination after somebody for some reason (the right-wing media and [...]

Ay ay ay…

Why haven’t I been writing much here lately, you ask?
I answer with a parable of sorts.
Both Friday and today, when I got out of my car and headed inside, I tried to open the front door of my own home with my Emmanuel College office key.
Let the one with ears to hear listen.

Keeping Things Going

Day three of my professor career (I know I moved some stuff into the office earlier, but this is the third day that I’ve spent on campus, all day) is under way, and I’m still enjoying the task of re-creating my composition syllabus. ?For now I’m not going to be doing my UGA routine, teaching [...]

Back to the Office, Back to Rest

August is the cruelest… no, I won’t start that way.
I always dread a little bit coming back to the office after a long summer. ?Coming around the next corner, always, will be the colleague who is ready to tell me about his summer sitting on the back porch, polishing off a hundred pages an afternoon [...]