Openstax

And look at this. Kansas already has a freely accessible website for second year Spanish, and Florida will have one for the first year soon. Also look at this. I would so like to work on a big, modern campus that had such things. I should arrange to visit Austin soon. I am so glad … More Openstax

And also

I also see perfectly what I was trying to make a radical break from and why, at a psychological level, it was virtually impossible to keep working in that field. Yes, in the best of all possible worlds one could have done it but it was far more realistic to switch. And what I considered … More And also

And again

To write, you have to feel comfortable and allow yourself authority. (You are also best not suffering sharp pain, and your mind must be clear.) It helps also if it is what you want to do. I wanted to do it for a long time or was happy to do it. For a long time … More And again

Quevedo

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That’s different. And this is a different attitude from the baroque desengaño but I would like to re-study some baroque literature now. Axé.

Types of pain people are in, or, why you should prefer health

Before I went into Reeducation, others were doing it and it seemed a bad thing. They would gleefully tick off the things wrong with them from the list they had been given, saying look, I am dysfunctional here, and here, and here … and I would think: “I cannot afford to undertake that kind of … More Types of pain people are in, or, why you should prefer health

Further evidence

And the e-mail says: “Your research is so exciting. I cannot wait to read the paper.” (I have a lot to say about this but the reason I am putting it up here is that I am trying to internalize that working view of myself.) Axé.