what does an average middleclass person in the developed world have to really fight for? stand up for? do capital-S Something about? plenty ...

the other day, this lengthy stretch of fencing (branded nicely enough with so much black, white, and red to represent the construction compa...

the word semester shows up in at least 130 of my past blogposts , which is a little more than 10% of all the posts I've thus far posted...

last week, my time was taken up by another academic conference. I presented on semi-academic podcasts and how awesomely they seem to cultiva...

eleven years ago, back at the very beginning of my academic career, I trekked 6 hours west from Lubbock, Texas, in my very old leper of a ca...

as part of this virtual conference going on here at the end of the month, I was able to attend a workshop hosted by the very professor who ...

so I signed up for eight weeks of voice lessons this summer. it was kind of fun and random to enroll at the local community college and get ...

back in the day, I thought I'd never want to teach. and then I realized that in some ways, everything everyone does can involve a layer ...

today begins week three of my first semester teaching at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I am the newest Assistant Professor of Profes...

it's not the most important volunteer gig in the world, but I am on the official Board of Copy Editors for a scholarly journal in the fi...

ten days into fall semester. it's been a bit of a rough transition from lovely summer travels to four new sets of students and curricula...

there were at least a dozen robins out in our backyard a minute ago, chirping away and pecking things out of the damp dirt. I didn't n...

I am preparing to teach an online technical communication course for a handful of graduate students. it is an exciting and slightly daunti...

I was just barely thinking about Jean ­Francois Lyotard, and then about Clay Shirky, and then about blogging, and when I opened up all my dr...

this week has brought the first cold rains of the season. half of October stayed quite warm and muggy, but autumn is properly settling in n...

I have been wanting to write something about this newsworthy mess that unfolded in Virginia ever since it happened over a month ago. but wh...

what if it were illegal to yell? part of me almost sort of likes that idea. criminalizing all the obnoxious, excess noise... 101 years a...