Someone on my Technical Writing mailing list posted a link to this article in the New Yorker by author George Saunders about his Writing Education. He writes about one of his college professors:

I notice that Doug has an incredible natural enthusiasm for anything we happen to get right. Even a single good line is worthy of praise. When he comes ( Read more... )

I found out on Monday that one of my teachers from Phillips Exeter, Christine Robinson had died back in June ( Read more... )

It seems we’re all baking in the heat lately. One of my Facebook friends posted a graphic with little red dots everywhere there’s been a new temperature record during the first five days of July. A good 40% of the map was red. June was even worse.

I remember when I was teaching, one of the books that I read with my classes was Kate Chopin’s The ( Read more... )

Today is the Ides of March.

Fifteen years ago I got fired from my teaching job on the Ides of March. I wrote a little bit about it here back in 2007 ( Read more... )

I used to be a teacher. I spent two years in the classroom as a full time teacher, and two more years as a substitute. Despite the fact that I’d learned to curse like a sailor during my five years working in a factory, I never cursed in the classroom. I didn’t let my students curse either. I warned them that any flavor of the F word (Frigging, ( Read more... )