Among the various things going on in my life, I’ve been preparing to give a speech on Robert Jordan for the 10th Anniversary Celebration Extravaganza for TarValon.net, a web community focused on the Wheel of Time. The event is happening here in Charleston at the beginning of March, and I …
There’s been a lot happening with The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook, and though I can talk about some of it now, I can’t get into the nitty gritty details on much of it. What I can say is this: 1. The book is done. It’s been “done” before, I …
After getting through the annual end-of-year trials — grading, shopping, grading, repeat — I caught quite the wicked cold bug. Been a-bed for a couple of days, and I’m at least a few more days from substantial recovery. Thus, in the meantime, I direct you to one more means of …
I’ve been up to quite a bit lately — thus the silence for over a month ’round these parts — and there’s thus quite a lot that I might chat about here: academic news, fiction work, teaching successes, sudden family vacations, and so forth. And perhaps I will bring that …
Life has been busy, but happy. The short of it all: The PUP is working great. All modifications are holding up so far, and I hope to make one more this weekend. Classes are in full swing. So far so good. 101 is always tough slogging early on while the …