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Of dull roots and spring rain

I'm fried. Oronte's fried. Anybody else getting near the end of their tether? (C'mon now. 'Fess up!) What is it...

Sunday Nights Since...

Back in high school, every Sunday night was torture. That was when the homework for the weekend that I'd been...

Melancholia and the Danes

When the climate-change-is-hooey-and-will-kill-the-only-economy-we've-got crowd starts turning to Denmark for its authoritative sources, you know they're desperate. That's even more true...

Crowd Control

Even after years of observing the phenomenon, I have no explanation. Obviously, one might think that on a rainy Monday...

The Death March

I mentioned a few days ago that Kay McClenney's point about shortening the remediation death march was worth a post...

Motherhood After Tenure: eating pedagogy

Last night a former student took over my kitchen, riffling through my cabinets, grabbing spices -- chopping, simmering, zesting, and...

Homecoming

After five days away, upon opening the door: silence... silence...silence...“DADDY!” Three flying-tackle hugs nearly knock me over.For the rest of...

When systems aren't systemic

Greenback U. has lots of administrative information systems. It used to have more -- before last decade's ERP implementation --...