Historical Archives
Historiann and Dr. Crazy and others have started this meme, and it’s a perfect meme to follow up on Mother’s Day. My lesson is about the striving to be liked that starts, I think, way too early. I spent this weekend going to a school fair and then to a soccer game, where I had…
I thought this Inside Higher Ed article was an interesting discussion of they way that people outside the academy seem to value a liberal arts education more than those within it. Ho notes that many humanities faculty, despite having defenders among CEOs and business leaders, shun business, withdrawing from potential allies. Further, she notes, the…
Although it’s mostly gone, I’ve still got a headache that comes and goes. No amount of medicine makes it go away. At least I’m functioning. Just not at 100%. When it’s around, I can’t really do much. All I can think about is the pain of it. I basically will it away. Which, by the…
I had a fairly long philosophical post planned out, but find myself recovering from a migraine, plus having jaw pain (I’m in treatment, but have another month to go). So you get just the facts–and the panic. Over the weekend, not one, but two high school girls came calling at our house. My son, a…
Elizabeth brings up the very point I was thinking on my way home yesterday when I heard a whole district of schools in Alabama had closed as a result of two Swine Flu cases: what are working parents going to do? Like Elizabeth, when I was working, there was much I could do at home…
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