This has been my Fall term kickoff week. I’ve had one lecture with the local university; other lectures, exams, and coursework are crowding the horizon but for now I have a couple weeks’ break with them. It was also the first week of the LIT 207 class with SNHU. I’ve done a fair amount with [...]
I am such a dweeb. I’ve been looking through the photos a colleague is making for me as part of a larger research project, and found myself nigh-well dancing as I looked at a certain group of cemetery photos and his notes. It’s not that the information is new, undiscovered, or even particularly spectatular. It’s [...]
I’m passionate about many things. I have an entire set of soapboxes about animals and what should be done with people who abandon, neglect, abuse, or mill-breed them—but I’ll save that for another day. I believe that family and friends need a higher priority than we (I) tend to give them. I believe that adding [...]
I’ve added a new permanent page to the site: an annotated bibliography of Edith Wharton resources. As the note at the top will tell you, it lists only a fraction of the mass of resources currently available to Edith Wharton scholars, and is only a partial listing of the materials I have used in my [...]
I recently found myself in an encounter with an academic who refused to accept a phrase because it fell outside the realm of his own personal academic experience, and I’ll be honest and say that the encounter troubles me. The term was “comfortable,” such as I and other writers and writing instructors use it to [...]