Teachers' Lounge: How do you teach an on-campus class when you can't go to...
It is very difficult to concentrate when you are not feeling well and I am not feeling well. In January of 2016 I had back surgery, and it was a great thing — the surgery went well, and I went to...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: It isn't all about our elections
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleTeachers' Lounge: Rough week
It is hard teaching when you are incoherent. Oddly enough, most students will notice and you yourself will notice as well. It is rather frustrating to not be able to go through material effectively....
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: We Start Tonight in Egypt
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleMy DKos Pooties
I had a cat who came with me from Canada when I moved back here to work. Efrat was a redhead, with green eyes, freckles, and a temper to match. She was a one-person cat and I was that one person. We...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Africa, South Asia -- the news out there
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleTeachers' Lounge: It's the time of year when grades start to come in
It is fall. The light has changed, and when you are not in the direct sun, the air is slightly chilIy. We are almost a third of the way through the semester, and this past week the students got their...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: To Hell in a... (you know the rest)
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Trying-to-find-some-good-news (somewhere? anywhere?)...
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleTeachers' Lounge: Saying goodbye to a mentor
My father and I went to a commemoration/celebration of life yesterday evening for Marilyn Stokstad, a scholar of medieval Art History and an old friend of my father and a woman I have known my whole...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Weekend before Halloween
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: It is going to be a looong weekend.
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Over There
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Last weekend in November
Wasn’t it just at the beginning of this month that we were looking at November with hope? Somehow a total eclipse of the moon seems appropriate to use as a banner for the diary this evening. It is...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: News from Elsewhere
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: news from Egypt, Ghana, and Switzerland (and a palate...
The Christmas tree is up with a goodly complement of ornaments, the peppermint cake is made (frosting it will wait until tomorrow), sugar cookie dough is resting in the fridge, peppermint bark and...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: News from South America and Central and Subcontinental...
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: It's almost Hannukah somewhere (and Christmas, it's...
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, annetteboardman and Man...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Isn't 2016 over yet?
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Doctor RJ, Magnifico,...
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