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Grow Your Own
This article from the Chronicle, about spousal hiring, and this one from IHE, about administrative searches in a recession, are...
The Disturbing Room
There must be a newly-minted Ph.D. out there, diss unpublishable, who’d like to write a book for a general audience...
Pre-Emptive Layoffs
An alert reader sent me the link to this article from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Apparently, the University of Massachusetts...
Math Geek Mom: Is More Always Better?
We live in a great neighborhood where many people decorate their homes for Christmas with fancy lights that draw people...
Biofuel blather
Having dissed George Will, a conservative darling of the ostensibly liberal media, I want to balance the scales by dissing...
Wondering Aloud
How is it possible that the comforter is warm, the blanket is warm, and the sheets are freezing? The sheets...
Long Distance Mom: Twilight, Seventeen and Possibly in Michigan
I have vague memories of reading Seventeen magazine upstairs in my attic bedroom, alone and sequestered from my parents. Even...
It's Official
I’m the best teacher who ever lived. Anyway I think that’s what the Provost said in the letter she sent...