Elanor is a bit more, um, difficult than Samuel was. More crying, especially at inopportune times. Like, for example, when she’s awake. Or when anyone else is sleeping. Not cool, little girl. Not cool at all. On the plus side, I have managed to squeeze in enough time to finish …
It’s question and answer time here on the blog. From reader J. Harris comes the following question (or two), about a subject that happens to be on my mind this time of year and so got me scribbling enough to run a blog post about it: I was wondering about …
Robert Frost’s 1915 poem is quoted a lot here at The Citadel. It’s in The Guidon — on page 16, knobs! — which is the standard “how-to-be-a-cadet” book that must be memorized by all students. It’s on posters and admissions materials. Heck, it’s even referenced on the cover of a …
I’ve been utterly swamped with meetings all week — a little bit on the faculty side, but mostly with cadets keeping me in my office through the evenings in order to chat about their work in progress. The vast majority of these have been students from my Honors Tolkien class, …
A spot of good news just now. I received word that I’ve had another article accepted for publication, this time a brief piece on Aphra Behn in The Explicator. Happily, this is my third academic acceptance in as many months (believe me, that streak will not last). You may recall …