Procrastadabbler

I’ve not been doing much writing lately because I’ve been struggling with figuring out what I want to say or write about. Writing turned into an obligation rather than a way of sharing my thinking and participating in a broader dialogue about the things that are important to me.
Today I saved an article from a [...]

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In my literacy theory class we’ve been studying the relationship of oral language to literacy acquisition and development. In my language, literacy, and diversity class we’re now reading about spoken word performance and it’s place in the African American Literate tradition (the work of Maisha Fisher among others). Fisher and others stress that it’s not [...]

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I’ve come to see that there are two kinds of teachers/professors. Those that work out the course curriculum, learn it well, and then leave it there. They are hesitant to make changes because it represents uncertainty and lots of work. The result is a course that is well organized but static. The students walk away [...]

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Eating simply doesn’t mean one has to eat poor quality food. A long long time ago a friend invited us to dinner. She was totally into mega complicated cooking. She asked what we liked and I said, simple foods. I don’t remember what she serve us but it was unremarkable.
30 years later I now have [...]

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The semester is just beginning and already I’m so very tired and discouraged. I don’t know if I have it in me any more to fight to publish, to go to conferences, to stay on top of the teaching game. I’ve always been self-motivated but it’s slipping away. I just don’t see myself getting anywhere. [...]

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