Procrastadabbler

There are too many things buzzing around and rather than being nice clear ideas with identifable relationships to one another, I’m finding that nothing is holding its shape. I mean, just look at the number of categories I’ve selected for this post.
To continue the metaphor, what I need to do is identify the nucleus, because [...]

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I just received a new set of books. I’m always looking for books to use with my students to spark them as literate beings as well as ways for them to spark their future students. I’m excited about the stack (all right, two stacks) of books to read. The problem is, I have an older [...]

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Literature is an issue for me. Just what constitutes literature. I have an undergraduate degree in English and a MS in English Education. I love to read. But frankly I don’t care much for what the Englishy types call literature. Much is presumptuous and pretentious. It’s a matter of cultural capital rather than really affecting [...]

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Much of my summer has been taken up by the Genesee Valley Writing Project, but I did manage to fit a few books in.
Micromessaging by Stephen Young. I read this at the beginning of the summer as part of the Fisher diversity program. It’s really conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff) taken into the corporate world. But [...]

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A number of years ago I read a marvelous short story about an elderly woman who is “waiting for her train.” The story follows her as she goes about her day in, I believe, the train station waiting area. One of the memorable scenes is how she goes into the rest rooms and washes her [...]

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