This is my big teaching day, so I really don’t have time to write a proper post. I did want to respond to jd’s assertion that the story of Margaret Rule–that was the name of the teen-aged girl Increase and Cotton Mather had strip to below the waist so that they could rub her naked…

So, the month wrapped and I still hadn’t gotten around to posting a list of the April books, and then in between not doing that and finally doing it, I read another book, and then–  Okay, so let’s back up a little. I want to talk about a book, sort of, and things the book…

I know, I know.  I’m a little late here.   But May 1st was a Wednesday, my biggest teaching day, and I’m trying to finish a new Gregor. That being said, I’ve got the list, and the notes. I do want to point out one thing–there is a novel on this month’s list, and I intend to…

So,  I’m looking at the comments, and to start I’d like to say that I agree with Mike Fisher 100%–in fact, it’s the same thing I’ve been saying for years now. I’d also like to say that I’ve got at least one way in which I can do a rough check  on the differences between…

It is spring, and with spring comes what I think of the inevitable and you probably don’t–term papers. It also brings the end of another Gregor novel, and I’m getting up at ridiculous hours of the morning to do that, but I like writing Gregor novels. I don’t so much like correcting term papers. Part…

I’ll admit it.  When I first started thinking about writing a blog post this morning, my  initial inclination was to say “well, here we go again,” and leave it at that. There’s a “here we go again” feel about these things to me these days. They’ve begun to all run together for me,   in…

It’s a gloomy, miserable, depressing day. Practically everything I tried to accomplish over the week end has failed.  I could be the poster child for not worth going on with. And none of that matters, really, so let me get to what does.  I got an e mail from a friend containing a link to…

So, it’s Saturday morning, and I’ve gotten the real writing down, and I’ve even gotten some work done on my latest side project, which is to produce a systematic account of the way I think about politics, morality, and Americanism–including what I mean by that last word, which is not what everybody else means by it.…

Just a couple of notes in response to Lymaree’s post. 1) My shoulder is like Lymaree’s husband’s shoulder.  I first dislocated it at 15.  It’s been popping in and out ever since.  I don’t know if they had the surgery back then, but if they did nobody mentioned it to us.  If they had, my…

This is Tuesday, and Tuesday is a day on which I don’t teach. Today I also have very little to do in the way of correcting or prep. I had a long stretch of office hours yesterday, and as a result I put up all my Blackboard content and worked out  my 102 lecture for tomorrow and…