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Midterms

I legit don’t know what happened. I blinked – and we’re halfway through the semester already? That old adage is indeed true – time indeed moves faster the older you get. But also the busier you get. But could it maybe not? 😂👀 Midterms in my field means exams for most – students will takeContinue reading “Midterms”

Films to Be Buried With: Resurrected

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that I’ve been a fan of Brett Goldstein’s podcast Films to Be Buried With and have taken the opportunity to answer his questions for myself (sometimes with a twist of theater or books instead of films). To round out this “series” of posts, IContinue reading “Films to Be Buried With: Resurrected”

First Friday Rec: True Biz

Title: True BizAuthor: Sara NovićGenre: Fiction, Contemporary, LiteraryPages: 402Publication Date: 5 Apr 2022StoryGraph* Moods: Informative, Emotional, ReflectiveHow I Stumbled Upon This Book: I want to say Instagram, but I can’t remember for sure. Other Books by this author: Girl at War and America is Immigrants.*StoryGraph also offers content warnings. Description: The title of this novelContinue reading “First Friday Rec: True Biz”

NCIS

By the time of this posting, the NCIS universe includes 1,063* episodes of television. In an era where most shows get about thirty episodes total over three seasons (usually with a few years between seasons with viewers waiting in limbo to hear if the show will go on), it’s sort of astounding to consider justContinue reading “NCIS”

Drawing

There are a set of stories that get told about me regarding my childhood – over and over. Perhaps you have a similar set, those stories that dragged out at family gatherings. One story is about how when I was a kid, young enough that I have no recollection of this, I was at myContinue reading “Drawing”

Not My Normal Kind of Post: PSA

Every year (meaning the start of the academic year, which for my school is mid-August), we (the faculty and staff) are tasked with taking a number of trainings: Ethics, Title IX, and cybersecurity. Every year while doing that last one, I can’t help but wonder how these scams ever work. Doesn’t everyone know not toContinue reading “Not My Normal Kind of Post: PSA”

First Friday Rec: Born a Crime

Title: Born a CrimeAuthor: Trevor NoahGenre: Nonfiction, MemoirPages: 289Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016StoryGraph* Moods: Funny, Emotional, ReflectiveHow I Stumbled Upon This Book: I knew of Trevor Noah, but I first saw it wandering through a bookshopOther Books by this author: It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Adapted for Young Readers) and Into the Uncut Grass.*StoryGraphContinue reading “First Friday Rec: Born a Crime”

Baking French Macarons

I love to experiment in the kitchen. To the degree that I have even attempted to make my own cheese and my own mayo (I’m still working on that second one). I like piecing together the puzzle of a new recipe (sometimes for odd things) and then making it my own. Of course, when thatContinue reading “Baking French Macarons”

Forty-Seven Times

Forty -seven semesters now I have stood in front of classes for the first time (whether in person or online). (Should be forty-nine, but there was that one summer I couldn’t teach because I was in Kenya and didn’t have reliable internet, and then I didn’t teach this last summer either.) Forty-seven times I haveContinue reading “Forty-Seven Times”

Visiting Lucy’s Locations

In 2018, I went to Scotland (for the first time…I can say that now 👀😁), and it was somehow more magical than I anticipated it would be. So much so that it inspired a magic realism story – my book Wherever Would I Be. In the book, Lucy visits several of the places I didContinue reading “Visiting Lucy’s Locations”