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The Long History of Teachers Complaining about Students – Medievalists.net

I’m glad I came across this today, as I am struggling to find new ways to engage my students in class and outside of it. Turns out, what’s happening now has happened before. Teachers today are not alone in struggling with students (I don’t blame the students or teachers they had before me, I blame […]

Jessica Jones

This is so good! Check out this artist’s blog, she’s brilliant. Source: Jessica Jones

Good Writing vs. Talented Writing – Brain Pickings

Really good article via Good Writing vs. Talented Writing – Brain Pickings.

Engaging the Audience

One of my lessons in rhetoric deals with visual rhetoric. We talk about the room the class is in, what it says about the college and their learning experience, and we talk about what they are wearing, and the messages they are sending the world. And we get to college professors. I discovered this in […]

10 Things Only Writers Understand.

Found this cool article by Ted Deckerof the New York Times on the mindset of Writers. Check it out here. Albert Einstein was once famously quoted as saying, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it’s stupid.” Whether […]

Zoe is my Valentine

I like to post pictures of my cat. She’s a cute cat and can often take a lot of funny pictures too. Some might say it’s weird for a guy to post so many pictures of a cat, but I can’t help it. I might lose some of that fabled “man credit” by posting like […]

Read more about Girls in Capes book club in Main Line Today!

Originally posted on Feliza Casano:
After a few months of sitting on this pretty exciting news, I can finally share the exciting news: I was profiled in Main Line Today’s February 2016 issue! That sense of being “other” extended to her predilection for reading. Casano could read by the time she was 3 years old.…

Four Years Later

Adjuncting is the worst. The pay sucks, there’s no benefits, they rewrote the rules so Obamacare doesn’t apply to us, you technically don’t get paid for the majority of the work you do, and even congress has compared it to indentured servitude before doing jack shit about it. Students are often disrespectful and most of […]

Nobody Reads Blogs (or: If You Are a Writer, You Need to Have a Blog)

Conflicting statements, right? One comes from the small press who published my novel Trading Saints for Sinners. The other is from a panel on social media and writers. The problem is, and I am guessing a lot of writers are … Continue reading

Concrete

I did a little bit of free writing today, listening to a piece calle “Concrete” by the amazing Chrysanthe Tan, on her new albumStories. If you use music to write to, I highly recommend it. I listed to this on … Continue reading