I never wrote anything like this before, but now I have, and I do not like it much, but I liked the book, and the text exists. Gene McCormick’s Lives of Passion: Edward and Antoinette (Rockford, Illinois: RWG Press, 2013), the author’s thirteenth book, is a series of interlocking prose poems that tell, in seventeen short pieces, … More A novella in pictures: Lives of Passion
So I am now over it. Over the current bout of nostalgia for places and activities and lives I missed. Over my rage at having succumbed to the pressure to renounce these things. I still say that what I do not like about professors is that they are not aware of any other interesting jobs–they … More 2014
It may not be possible for all to see the epoch-making Hockney exhibit at the DeYoung Museum, as I have done, but more can perhaps see this film, which exists in a similar vein, the next generation of realizations and images. Seriously. Axé.
The reason I am this irritated, of course, is that California is this beautiful and I am in exile. In any case, it turns out that before becoming a teacher in California my grandmother was one in Washington, Oregon, and before that, Utah, all in the first years of the twentieth century. In Utah she … More On Utah
…that I am really angry about being pushed to things by people who know nothing of what they are discussing and of me. They think that academic jobs are nice, that all other jobs are wicked, and that I have no skills. Yet it is very important to them that I have an academic job. … More And so you can see
One of the things about academic jobs is that you need to be a good caretaking type. I am not interested in this and would not go into it professionally but I can see that people who are interested in geriatric care, care of disabled children, and so on, are people better suited to most … More Now I see
3/- It’s gorgeous here, and Dame Eleanor should come back. I have discerned that “take a job, any job” means, to some, “you may have to take jobs in places as horrible as Madison or Ann Arbor.” I have also discovered that the people who think there are only academic jobs, simply have no information. … More Postscript and note to Dame Eleanor Hull, updated
I have escaped to California until further notice. Rural Louisiana is entirely too hard to take but check this out: I wrote an entire book review on the plane, because the world of reason begins (people do not understand this, but they just do not know) at the Texas state line. All bets are off … More La belle vie
I have developed this principle before but I do not always apply it, as I am careless now and because solidarity and also familiarity with the contingent faculty makes me too egalitarian. But you should not listen very much to other assistant professors or to instructors and adjuncts. They are the ones who most wish … More Serious advice to new faculty
I am in so much pain, I don’t know what to do. I just dropped a family heirloom by mistake and broke it, which adds to the tragedy and is also why I am still concerned about whether or not I am safe to drive to Houston. I cannot allow people, in this university but … More I am suffering, and I want to stop
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