Yesterday brought news that I’ve had another Tolkien article accepted for publication. This one was co-written by one of my very good friends: A. Keith Kelly, an Assistant Professor at Kutztown University, who specializes in Old English and Old Norse. Keith’s a terrific fellow medievalist who I met at the …
I’ve mentioned previously my love of the Shift Happens 2.0 clip on YouTube. Well, it’s been updated to what’s being called “4.0”: I still think this is the simplest, most concise statement about the importance of critical thinking, which is what I’m ultimately teaching in my classes. After all, critical …
Reading student evaluations is never a fun process for me. I am, by nature, someone who shakes off positive feedback in order to focus like a hawk on anything negative (of which there are, thankfully, usually not many). This weekend I was going over my course evaluations from this past …
I spent much of the day entranced by the inauguration. I’m sure I wasn’t alone. I’ve seen a few inaugurations now, and I confess that I felt, well, a little emotional to witness what happened today. True, I voted for our new President, and I cannot deny the sweeping feeling …
I took the Hobbit to the Charleston Fire Department Museum today. We had a great time checking out the fire trucks and listening to how this is a fire danger and that’s a fire danger and, well, everything is a bloody fire danger. Still, it was fun. The young master …