Programming Note

Grammar Wednesday IS coming – just not in as timely a manner as you may have come to expect.
Mr. Chili and I are on a haj to IKEA today and I didn’t pre-compose my GW post this week, so you’ll have to wait until tonight – maybe even tomorrow – for your weekly dose of [...]

YES!

I really am having a FANTASTIC semester.
I’m almost afraid of admitting that – I hear (and read) a lot of my colleagues’ trials and frustrations, and I feel a little guilty for have a truly stellar time of things so far. I’m also a little afraid of jinxing myself, but I just can’t keep [...]

Heh

I don’t really like the built-in site meter that WordPress offers, but I’m not computer-smart enough to figure out how to get any other (good) site meters to work on this forum. For as much as I hated Blogger (and I really did hate Blogger), they worked with SiteMeter, which is, as far as [...]

Crossover

I may be “cheating.”
It was my turn to choose a selection for the Dark and Stormy Book Club, so I’ve got us reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which also happens to be the novel I’m teaching my lit. class this month.
I started the class by showing them the Hallmark interpretation of the story.  I’ve mentioned this [...]

A Difference of Perspective

I’m not an innocent. I know that everyone has a different view of the world and that no one sees anything exactly the same way. I’m okay with that, even – it makes life interesting and, on good days, it challenges growth.
October 11th is National Coming Out Day. In honor of the [...]

Grammar Wednesday

Holy Crap! It’s Wednesday again ALREADY?!
This question was posed by a reader who specifically asked for anonymity – I’m not sure why, exactly, as there’s really nothing incriminating in it, but you ask and I honor – so I’m just going to post the question and leave it at that. This was [...]

I LOVE My Job!

I’m having a really great semester.
I’ve got two classes this term – a composition course that meets at 8:40 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and a literature class that meets immediately after at 11:10. They’re both small groups – there are 15 in the composition class and 8 in lit. – and I’m loving every [...]

Grammar Wednesday

I was completely stumped for Grammar Wednesday fodder last night – CTG, with his wonderful suggestions, had spoiled me into not having to think – so I emailed Kizz and begged for her help. Here’s one of the many suggestions she fired back (I’m saving the rest for future inspirationless GWs):
My pet peeves of [...]

Well, Damn!

As an assignment for the play we’ve just finished reading (Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House), I tasked my students to:
please imagine what happens to Nora immediately after the play ends.  She gets her cloak on and leaves Torvald at their apartment.  Her plan, as she states on page 1525, is to spend the night with [...]

Civics on Saturday: The Constitution, Part III- Article II

Just as Article I of the Constitution establishes Congress and defined its role, Article II creates the Executive Branch of government and sets out some guidelines and parameters as to what functions the framers thought the president and vice president should serve.
Section I of the article creates the office of president and vice president and [...]