▼
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
05 August, 2016

Old Habits, New Projects

›
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. - Seneca The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy...
11 February, 2016

The cold settles in: more on activism, Quixotism, and the drive for a better life

›
and I ran back to that hollow again the moon was just a sliver back then and I ached for my heart like some tin man when it came oh it b...
06 January, 2016

Don't get no respect: back to school, wobbly-style

›
  I'm heading back to campus today to line up the last bit of what I need to do in order to teach on Thursday. Between the usual declin...
04 August, 2015

A Baboon In An Ivory Tower (Or, The Gig Life, Part 2)

›
The beginning of August means one thing -- the academic year is about to start. And while I am still persona non grata at KCTCS -- Kentuc...
23 July, 2015

Superstition and Tradition

›
Pictured left is my second round of drinks as a paid freelance journalist in Louisville. Nothing fancy. Just my usual round of Miller L...
03 June, 2015

Solidarity Along the Dirty, Sacred, River: The Virtue of Proportional Response

›
I had an entirely different blog entry planned. The blog I was going write was going to regale you, dear friends and readers, with the te...
29 November, 2014

The Puritans Never Did This, Part 1: Under an Overload, Loading in, and The Dirty River Press

›
1. Under and Overload, Loading In, and The Dirty River Press I t's been a while since I sat down to write about life here along the ...
10 February, 2014

Regarding Gator Men

›
Jake The Alligator Man, Marsh's Free Museum, WA I don't know if Gator Men actually exist. From a purely biological and ecologic...
09 September, 2013

Gator People Live In the River, 4: Persona Non Grata Chimichanga

›
I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard. - L. Frank Baum Back in the saddle again, as it were. The academic year is official...
06 May, 2013

Losantiville Lines: Down River Chorus, Version 1

›
The world is already cut up and we are snarling over scraps deliberately dropped by a pale paternalistic hand to keep us wanting and to keep...
10 February, 2013

Losantiville Lines: Baboon Among The Savages; Code of the Road

›
The code of the road is to share; we only have ourselves out there. - The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band The last time I battled the flu wa...
29 January, 2013

Losantiville Lines: The Keys To The Kingdom

›
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. - Arthur Carlson, WKRP IN CINCINNATI Probably the most succinct explanation I've ever...
22 January, 2013

Losantiville Lines: Professionalism and the Baboon

›
You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't.- John Prine Today being the celebration of Martin Luther King Day, it behooves u...
23 October, 2012

O Losantiville, Don't You Cry For Me (2nd Chorus)

›
Cincinnati presents an odd spectacle. A town which seems to want to get built too quickly to have things done in order.   --  Alexis de Tocq...
19 February, 2009

UT Creams Itself Over James Agee

›
When we moved to Knoxville, the memories I had of the place were mostly positive. I remembered going to the 1984World Fair, riding to the t...