I spent a little more than 48 hours in Flagstaff the other weekend. gorgeous weather. wonderful wool and fiber festival (even if my very  f...

apparently I haven't blogged about the Tour de Fleece here yet. (you can read a bit more about this July spinning challenge event thing...

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...

there's not been much of anything new in my courses for several semesters now... but at long last, this spring, I am teaching a very bra...

I don't know when, if ever, I last used any of the four embroidery hoops I have lying around. until today. I have put the second-smalles...

last month I got to attend the 2022 Computers & Writing conference, hosted on the charming East Carolina University campus. this year, i...

today, after having planned to do so for some weeks, I printed out all 24 of my scholarly publications, starting from the oldest book review...

the stars in the winter seem brighter, or shinier, or at least more , possibly because there is more night for them to shine in. yesterday, ...

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 ...

the general if mild exhaustion of this month feels pretty normal by now. but it is Thanksgiving week at last. there shall be time for sleepi...

goals, of a sort, for the last two weeks of summer break: sewing . last weekend I cut out pieces for two sundresses and picked apart a long ...

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...

what and who do you find easy to listen to vs. difficult to listen to? I've had reason to ponder this lately, mainly with regard to dive...

basically we have one week left in this quaint little Louisiana town. no, we haven't managed to sit ourselves down to watch Steel Magn...

it feels like I used to have so much to say. I was just ambitious enough to be confident enough to recognize all my self-doubt and still ig...

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...

thinking today about the word "work," particularly all the times it gets linked up as a prefix or suffix to other words. so I ma...