Two Classes Down, 9 To Go…

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I’m done with the first quarter of grad school!  I even did pretty well: I’m not too pleased with my B in Research and Bibliography, but that’s definitely the grade I earned.  Each assignment was so totally different from the last that I just couldn’t get the edge I needed to get an A.  [...]

Do you know where the ferret is?

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It’s almost 11 pm and I am reading articles on writing pedagogy and eating dark chocolate Hershey’s kisses.

Is this heaven or hell?

Oh, and the ferret is busily hiding its food under the couch, with frequent pauses to stalk and kill James‘ balled up socks.

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Holiday Wish List — So I don’t forget

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Year after year, a friend or family member asks me what I want for gifts and I am just about always at a loss to reply. This year I can actually get or make people something decent, too, so I suppose it’s okay if I put a few things I need or want up [...]

Manfred, III, iv

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“The stars are forth, the moon above the tops

Of the snow-shining mountains. –Beautiful!

I linger yet with Nature, for the night

Hath been to me a more familiar face

Than that of man; and in her starry shade

Of dim and solitary loveliness,

I learn’d the language of another world.”  —– Byron

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My Birthday

"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older." -- Anouk Aimee