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My mom was a teacher. What’s more—and it is more, since not all teachers are the same—she had an intense...

I read Scott McLemee’s column on clutter yesterday in my office. Administrators refer to the room as the Adjunct Ghetto...

I don't know what that means, but they tell me the kids these days are all crazy for it.

Having just returned from an academic conference, I know the rigors of professional travel. I boarded the plane in Philly...

When's the last time you listened to the entire "I Have a Dream" speech? Also, here's a site that proposes...

Half-baked thoughts, then, toward an AWP presentation that won’t be: Jokes, the good Dr. Freud said famously, are often “hostile.”...

I tried to put a panel session together for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Atlanta this...

Once there was a writer for one of America's biggest catalog companies. Perhaps because the young man was a veteran...