I like making my own coffee at home. I like making my own coffee at home because I probably can’t make it to a coffee shop without getting a headache, but I also enjoy the process: grinding beans, listening to water burble around, settling into my online newspaper-reading position and, overall, waking up in the [...]
Also tagged Ain't That America, Food, TravelI made a reference to “Choose Your Own Adventure” books in one of my classes last week and, because I had to explain the concept, because nobody knew about choosing your own adventure, I started to think about how entertainment has changed. It really turns into a pre-computer or pre-Internet thing…
Before computers and/or Internet: Read [...]
I have to admit, I get excited walking around campus and watching freshman orientation groups tripping over (or colliding into) each other. Not just because I like calamity, either. There’s a lot of positive energy buzzing around a college campus before classes start and it’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement.
To keep [...]
I’ve been thinking about this blog and Facebook a lot recently because a) I probably spend too much time on Internet-related matters, and b) the more I teach, the more I worry that crafty students will dig up something incriminating. I don’t think there’s much scary stuff to work with — all I do is [...]
Also tagged Ain't That America, Site updates, WritingI’m not sure why I torture myself by reading articles about economics. It’s similar to staring at Sudoku puzzles — I have no idea what’s going on, but I’m fascinated by the numbers. Only with economics, it’s more about unfamiliar terms and word usage.
This weekend I read an article called “The Food Bubble” that appeared [...]
I always like comparisons of professional wrestling and politics, so this New York Times article about a WWE executive running for the U. S. Senate makes me feel very good about the politico-entertainment complex. Why not admit the whole thing is staged, sit back, and enjoy the ride?
I’m looking forward to Senate Wrestlemania events on [...]
I turn thirty-five today. Now that’s really starting to sound old. Some of my classmates are celebrating twenty-five this year. Oh, the places they’ll go. When I want to scare them I talk about dial-up modems and pagers, and how cell phones were as big as loaves of bread, and how you had to read [...]
Also tagged Ain't That America, MFA, TravelI should make a tag and/or category for “Time.” I’m always writing and thinking about how quickly time passes, or how things that happened so long ago feel like they occurred yesterday, or how things that happen yesterday feel so far in the past. But I picked “Travel” for this post because it’s not so [...]
Also tagged Ain't That America, Travel