This morning I took up an invitation to visit Jim Rigney’s home and office. Robert Jordan’s office, in other words. The home of the Dragon Firstborn. It’s hard to describe what a surreal experience this was for me. Robert Jordan was a name of dreams for most of my adult …
One of my students recently asked me why I don’t write much about my academic life here on the website. The question gave me pause, largely because I hadn’t realized that I’d not written much about academic things. Yet looking over the site I can see the student was right: …
I spent a good portion of this afternoon upgrading the website to version 2.5 of WordPress. Rather stressful, to say the least. I adore the simultaneous ease of use and enormous flexibility of this software, but upgrading is a tremendously frightful process in which you must delete primary function folders …
I don’t post too much about the fact that I live and work on the campus of a military college, but every now and then something strikes me as rather unique about this place. This morning, for instance, not long after I rolled out of bed to greet the stacks …
What a busy week! Last night I was the MC for the annual rendition of Patio Performances, in which three talented cadets read their creative writing under the shading oaks of the library courtyard. It is a pleasant 40 minutes, especially on a beautiful spring evening here in Charleston. The …
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