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    Archive for January, 2009

    Updike Fans Bid Master Adieu

    Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

    “And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic…” Perfection Wasted, John Updike.   If I should write a book entitled “How Reading Shaped My Life,” I would devote an early chapter to John Updike, who died yesterday of lung cancer. Just a day prior, I thought of Updike…something prompted [...]

    Wrestling with Time

    Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

    I am currently up-to-my-ears in writing work with what little time I have whirling at the opening of the drain. I am not only writing courses, syllabi, and materials, AND updating my teaching portfolio for review this semester, but also starting a couple of other blogs, AND migrating two years of content from my old [...]

    An Observation

    Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

    As I closed my last post, it occured to me that I had not yet shared an observation I had this summer. I’ve noticed that there is at least one kid on just about every Disney and Nickelodeon TV series/film/show who is either a pop singer, or gets put in situations in which they are [...]

    Dismantling Christmas

    Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

    After I spent much of the day dismantling Christmas throughout the house, I feel pretty good. The house is not so cluttered, and the living room is fresh and ready for a new year. I’ll celebrate the melancholy ritual with my favorite Auden poem: “Well, so that is that” Well, so that is that. Now [...]

    Welcome 2009

    Thursday, January 1st, 2009

    As is now a tradition of my blog, I mark the passing of another year with lines form Lord Alfred Tennyson’s In Memorium : Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out [...]