New semester resolutions
Ask any educator. August is a month full of intense ambivalence. The last vestiges of summer feel tinged with anxiety over to-dos …
Calming the monkey mind
Friend who’s staying over this weekend for airshow practice: “What are you up to today?” Me: “Writing my section of a joint …
It’s Professor ‘Twitter Girl’ now, thank you very much
I tried not to be offended when he ran out of class in the middle of what students usually describe as the …
Words with friends: Collaboration makes better writers
I love the stereotypical image of a writer: A solitary figure, holed up somewhere chain smoking and drinking buckets of booze coffee, …