I’ve noted before how excited I get when I have a break from teaching and can tackle the stack of “fun” and/or “mindless” books underneath my coffee table. Spring Break is no exception; I love this week of relief between meetings and grading and comforting stressed-out seniors, and my rest and recovery usually includes some […]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
March
16
Continuing Ed
posted by Lynne Nugent
When I graduated with my PhD, I vowed never again to take any more classes in my life, except in yoga or perhaps felting. Soon enough, however, I found myself hearing about friends’ syllabi and thinking, “That sounds like an amazing class!” and feeling a twinge of nostalgia for my student days. And now I’ve […]
March
14
Black History Month and Everything After
posted by Ann
I have a two year old, and he has a ridiculous library of picture books. Even so, we go each week to the public library. In February, the children’s section featured a display of books for Black History Month. There were picture books that discussed important events in African American history, including the horrifying history […]
March
03
What Stacy’s Reading Now: My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel
posted by Stacy
A footnote found early in My Age of Anxiety, Scott Stossel’s recent memoir/social history, notes something that I’ve always suspected: “…there are plausible evolutionary explanations for why both intelligence and imagination ten to be allied with anxiety” (18). I have always hypothesized that anxiety is a “smart person” problem, and now I have evidence to […]
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