Changing the Rules
I have been busy in my head of late assembling a (hopefully small) collection of new rules for myself vis-à-vis blogging (in particular) and making st...
Category: the writing life
I need to buckle down
Oh, to strike out boldly, sucking in deep dedicated draughts of knowledge and digesting rapidly and energetically, then turning and placing with b...
Messing up the blank page
Of all the many many terrors which life seems to hold for me, few are as paralyzing as a new blank notebook. That is why I have so many of them: I love not...
A Moan about a Meme
I fully realize that this is an odd thing to feel strongly about, particularly with all that is going on in the polis right now, but I really hate the l...
Unspreading
I attended a doctoral defense yesterday at my school. Ours is not a huge faculty, so there are less than a handful of these exciting events each school...