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Missed dates and missed steaks. I can't stay on topic these days with my writing. Been starting essays on writing and ended up writing about soccer (again). Wrote about dead cows and ate a steak. Went to Houston. Drove to ...Read More

If I Could Sleep

From a book I'm reading for Seminar in Pedagogy, Composition Studies as a Creative Art by Lynn Z. Bloom: STANLEY––HE PLAYS HIS DRUMS, SOMETIMES, AND HE BANGS EM, HE BANGS EM AND HE BANGS EM, HE'LL ROLL EM, BACK AND FORTH ...Read More

Something Beautiful

Scotland unveiled a new slogan today: "Welcome to Scotland." My students workshopped the hell out of six essays in class today. On the essays we workshop, I change the student name to protect the innocent, although sometimes it is fairly obvious ...Read More

Welcome to Scotland

The reading went well on Thursday. Six of my students showed up. Yesterday I walked in to class without a lesson plan. We just talked about the assignment and about what makes good writing. I had them come up with ...Read More

Reading went well

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  • Posted on November 17, 2007.
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I have spent the last three hours (and by "three," I mean five), "productinating." This is a special word I have coined, meaning "avoiding immediate work for minor, lesser work that could be postponed, and in fact should be postponed ...Read More

I just want things to come up Milhouse