Sunday Miscellany

Wow. It's been awfully quiet in here lately. Sorry about that, but I've been busier than usual. Here's what's been happening.

The new semester started this week at Blue Ridge Community College, where I'm teaching one section of Freshman Composition II. I like this course because the students read and write about literature, so I get to talk about fiction and poetry and drama. We're using a new textbook this semester, so that means more work for me, but it also means I can think about and explo...