"Out of hopeful green stuff woven..."

"We used to think...when I was an unsifted girl...that words were weak and cheap. Now I don't know of anything so mighty." -Emily Dickinson

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Yeah, I know Halloween was last week...

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My parents visited a couple of weekends ago, which gave my mother ample time to engage in her usual commentary about Bing and Wesley. To rec...
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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Watch wikipedia change!

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This is a pretty cool site to visit . You can watch people around the world edit Wikipedia entries in real-time (almost). I find myself usi...
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Poe on the big screen...

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Shannon forwarded me this article about plans to make a movie adaptation of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." I am not sure how ...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Benjamin Franklin

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"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all." Benjamin Frankli...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Note to self: buy more chocolate in December...

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A funny article about how giving students chocolate before they fill out evaluations leads to higher marks for teachers. Check it out. I lo...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Seneca

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"He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the act; for the consciousness of well-d...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

We'll miss you, Joe

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Joe Torre has turned down an offer to return to manage the Yankees next year. I am a bit surprised by this exact turn of events--I didn'...
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What killed Edgar Allan Poe?

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An interesting article/theory here from author Matthew Pearl, who wrote the popular Dante Club , (I haven't read it, but my friend Rita...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Feminism and Romance

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A conversation I have with some of my students every semester: Young female student: "I'm not a feminist or anything, but..." ...
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I've got a theory...it must be corporate kill joys..

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If you don't recognize my paraphrasing of the lines from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's totally amazing musical episode, "Once Mor...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Francis Bacon

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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from ...
Friday, October 12, 2007

How to grade 70 midterms and 50 papers with 2 demanding cats...

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Some of you know that I often make myself stay up in my office working until pretty late in the day. There are plenty of good reasons for th...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Midterm week...

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Piles of grading in front of me--stacks that will only grow bigger. Numbers to crunch and equations to work out (who said English majors don...
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Thursday, October 4, 2007

"But I will still kill you."

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Remember this post from a couple of weeks ago? It would work really well on passiveaggressivenotes.com , a website I've just added to m...

Who's up for a road trip?

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One of my dream road trip destinations is Concord, Massachusetts . Yeah, I know that makes me even more of an English nerd, but let's fa...
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I grew up on Long Island, went to college in Salem, VA, and graduate school in Greensboro, NC. Now I live and work in Shepherdstown, WV, where I teach literature and composition. All in all, life is good.
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