I addressed the graduate students on Saturday at their one-day conference, and I used this quote as a way to inspire them to transgress, take risks, and take advantage of the opportunities presented to them. “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its […]
This is how all Mondays should begin, but especially the one after my professional conferences! This from one of my the PhD students who graduated in the fall. Very cool!
18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently. This article is really helpful in thinking about creativity. I have never thought of myself as creative. I mean, my younger brother is an artist. I research technical and professional writing not creative writing. And because these two fields are often positioned as binaries, it makes it seem […]
I have been working on a number of longer posts, but I find I have to draft them and let them sit for a couple of days and come back to them. In a conversation with a friend a couple of weeks ago, we were discussing how awesome the (somewhat) flexibility of our positions as […]
I was reading the following article about amazon.com, Amazon Just Patented Shipping Items Before They’re Even Ordered, and the first sentence really got me thinking: Late last month, Amazon patented a process they’ve termed “anticipatory package shipping,” in which products would be sent to fulfillment centers near the customers most likely to purchase them, before […]
Several years ago (okay probably twenty years although it seems like only ten), I picked up Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within while working in the writing center at University of Southwestern Louisiana (where I did my undergraduate degree), now University of Louisiana at Lafayette…the Ragin Cajuns! I had just started […]