Tom Thompson, the director of the Lowcountry Writing Project, sent along a few pictures he took during my lecture a few weeks ago. I liked this one in particular: It’s strange, now that I get this, to think of how few pictures I have of myself doing these kinds of …
Amid all the craziness of the past few days — particularly my excitement with the students about the publication of The Shako — I received notice that an article of mine has been accepted for publication in English Journal. This was the second one in a week, which is by …
It’s Corps Day weekend here at The Citadel, which means that it’s time for yet another edition of The Shako, the Literary Magazine of The Citadel. After a year off, in which another colleague took over the reins, I was once again in charge of the magazine, which is an …
In my last post — an account of my day yesterday — I noted that I’d stayed up until the wee hours of the morn working on revisions for an article. I sent it back to the editor at something like 1:30 in the morning, and a little over 24 …
Back on an average day in January, I decided to keep an account of what I did for about 24 hours. It was an amusing and interesting experiment, if a bit daunting to look back upon. Today, I did it again. Not counting “little” interruptions, here’s the highlights: