On Spring Break around here, and here are the things I’m up to: Enjoying a bit of quality time with the family after too long with my head buried in Brunanburh. Writing Tolkien lectures and creating PowerPoints. I’m trying to get ahead. Trying to start exercising again now that my …
We aren’t positive that norovirus has entered our household, but all signs, as they say, point to “yes.” Certainly the symptoms match up, and we know that there’s norovirus in the air hereabouts: A local-stationed cruise ship just underwent an extra-super-duper cleaning after its third successive outbreak of the virus. …
Don’t know why I was thinking about Douglas Adams the other day, but I was. And so, on a lark, I looked up one of the best movie trailers of all time on YouTube. For your Saturday happiness, here it is: Brilliant!
I celebrated getting through the past 5 weeks — one of the busiest times I’ve seen in many years — by seeing Avatar with my buddy Keith, who was here to give his own paper at the PAC conference. Herewith, my feelings about the film:
There are many things I find wondrous about having a child, but today I was thinking about the amusing and enlightening fact that my three-year-old takes my questions seriously. I am somewhat accustomed to people taking my questions seriously in general, of course — I am, after all, a teacher …