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

opening match #7: 7th Sea 2e vs. Cyberpunk RED this one is quite the contrast, isn't it? I almost can't get over how strikingly diff...

a not-so-random memory:  my first boyfriend, the redhead, putting a pair of earphones in my ears and pushing play on a Smashing Pumpkins so...

my latest LibriVox contribution-- The City of Din , by Dan McKenzie-- surprisingly made its final journey through the prooflistening stage r...

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...

the "twitter thread" as a genre fascinates me. I have so many curious questions about it. when was the first cohesive thread of p...

this week I deactivated my 15-year-old facebook account. why? many reasons. mainly, it's a new year, time for trying new things. fac...

I am loving this podcast: https://zigzagpod.com/ especially this recent episode of listener stories and general reflection . and especi...

we searched out an audio-short-story with which to pass the time on our way to and from Chicago several weeks ago. it was "The Call of ...

I find it amusing to read the uploader's disgruntled comments on this audio file of Blake's "The Tiger ," when the nearly-...

most people who know me know I get incredibly picky about movies. it is an awful snobbishness, an unshakeable sensitivity to predictable tro...

last year, August, I became one of those people who owns a smartphone, and therefore I had to also acquire accessories to surround the smart...

the online summer class I've been teaching ended last Friday, when all the last final projects got turned in. as of five seconds ago, al...

it seems so easy to be in a marvelously good mood when one is recovered from awful sickness. the work of spring semester is over. I have lit...