[This piece appears with a different headline and in a slightly edited form on the last page of the latest copy of The Westminster Magazine.] Last week I hosted eighteen freshmen in my office for lunch. I have been hosting these lunches as a means of getting to know students and as a means of developing a […]
Ross All Over the Map – blog
Poetry Party? Yes, By All Means
My daughter awoke before us this morning–not long before. In fact, I had taken out our dog, Mic, quite early as he stays on the work week wake up timing even when I let go of it for the weekend, and I fell back asleep for another hour and a half or so. She told […]
Found out yesterday that I will likely be teaching an eleventh grade English section next year. This is exciting news for reasons that include the opportunity to teach Hamlet again. This post from the British Museum made me think of “a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.”
Finding My Line
[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps?gl=us&ie=UTF8&ll=37.937352,-79.42115&spn=0.08218,0.163422&t=h&z=13&output=embed&w=425&h=350]–From Concourse As to EsAnd from moving sidewalksTo gray carpeted walkwaysTo clickclickclick rolling suitcasesOver tiled routesThrough security andThrough revolving doors,I have been finding my line,And I have been walking a long way throughOne inexhaustible place, a discipline of malaise,-Full of exhaustible people dressedLike people who have forgotten where they used to live:-One more drinkers, […]
The Global Online Academy and “The Promise of Online Learning”
Today I have spent some time thinking about a course I will teach next fall for the Global Online Academy. I have mentioned GOA before in a post entitled, “A Shout-Out to Partnerships: Their Relevance in A Progress Culture.” As opposed to the other courses at GOA that serve students drawn from the member schools, […]
This light will guide you… | Sewanee: The University of the South
This light will guide you… | Sewanee: The University of the South.This link above is to a film compiled from various timelapses, and it came today with an Annual Fund ask from Sewanee, my alma mater. I love this sort of photography. The care and precision required to create time lapse photography is remarkable, and […]