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You Forget...

what the world looks like when you're seven. An actual exchange last night: The Boy: You know, I try to...

Food, fuel

I often find it interesting to chase down links and other references provided when folks respond to my posts. Generally...

Cary Nelson, Provocateur

Well, that post title was a little redundant, don’t you think? For my readers not in academe, Cary Nelson is...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Trying to stay positive

Last Monday I wrote my blog post during a snow day; today it’s 80F and sunny, and I’m on spring...

The Litany

For some reason, there's a persistent subset of people – both faculty and staff – who can't raise one issue...

The best article on sustainability that I've read recently ...

... isn't technically about sustainability. It's about food. Or, more technically, our agricultural system. It's here. You should go read...

Grow Your Own

This article from the Chronicle, about spousal hiring, and this one from IHE, about administrative searches in a recession, are...

The Disturbing Room

There must be a newly-minted Ph.D. out there, diss unpublishable, who’d like to write a book for a general audience...