As reported in my last post, I returned to Charleston from my three-week Europe-to-Rochester adventure at 2am on the Fourth of July. I left Charleston on a flight to Colorado that same afternoon, this time on a month-long family vacation that will swing us through Colorado and New Mexico, staying …
Last week, on 23 May 2014, we lost Sydney the Wondermutt. She was 13. She was, unto the end, not just a good dog, but a loyal member of our family. Many of you know already the story of Syd, but I want to write it down anyway. I want …
The end is nigh. No, not TEOTWAWKI. The end of my sabbatical. The fact that it’s ending is nothing I can really complain about, of course. Few jobs in this world will give you any paid leave at all to go do the sorts of things that make you happy; …
School started today, which meant a number of students coming to my office to ask what I thought about the new Hobbit movie. The short answer is I liked it. . . . The long answer — indeed, the long-winded long answer of a scholar who publishes on medieval literature, …
Some weeks ago, a student of mine posed a question to me in the minutes before class began: If you could meet five people, from any time in history, who would they be? I didn’t have time to think about the notion then, and I’d essentially forgotten all about it …
