fun with Wordle… rhetoric… God… body…

Ooh, way fun. Thanks, Marjorie. And Michael, you’re right: word clouds just got way cooler. This first one is my final Rhetorical Traditions paper, from winter term. (Click on image to see a bigger version.)

This one is an evening prayer service I led at our church back in December.

And this is a short response paper [...]

scriptura creatio ex nihilo

Whew, I feel as if I didn’t get much done this weekend, even though I finally came up with a workable and original thesis and an outline for my Pardoner paper. And that’s A LOT. It often takes me a long time to get that, and once I do, it feels like down-hill from there. [...]

subconscious pedagogy

Okay, I had this dream a couple weeks ago. But get this: I dreamt that I was teaching WR121 (first-year writing) and I required the students to write their whole papers with only one sentence pattern. That’s right: every sentence was to have the same sentence pattern. I even felt happy about it, as if [...]

my signature strengths

Here are my “signature strengths,” via Martin Seligman’s www.authentichappiness.org.   I won’t tell you what my 24th (last) strength was. I’m workin’ on improvin’ that one.
Your Top Strength
Forgiveness and mercy
You forgive those who have done you wrong. You always give people a second chance. Your guiding principle is mercy and not revenge.
Your Second Strength
Appreciation of [...]

1:01am

Woo hoo! I’m finally completely finished with Fall quarter ‘07. 1:01am
I finished my WR 511 The Teaching of Writing paper last night (and went out and celebrated with Travis and Vicki). And tonight I just finished the last couple papers I had due: a reflection paper and case study for the teaching practicum (Hi, [...]

something I’m thankful for

(I took this in October of 2004 at Tim’s Pond on Highway 12 on the way to White Pass, about a half-hour out of Yakima, Washington.)
Today I’m alone and away from home, working on a book review. I’m saved from spending the whole day alone and turkey-less, though, because one of my professors invited [...]

“Plot against the loud happy writing people.”

I’m cleaning out my email files here at the YVCC Writing Center, since this is virtually my last day here. Weird feeling, that. But, anyway, I remember this magnetic poetry sentence which appeared on our white board one day (students were free to play with the words whenever they wanted to), and I [...]

Director, Hogwarts Writing Center

I got to do some fun stuff in my six-plus years in the YVCC Writing Center. I came up with this letter from Minerva McGonagall to our director, Dodie Forrest, back in November 2005. A group of us from the center were planning on seeing Goblet of Fire the day it came out and we [...]

one situation in which we’d need a dress code for writing consultants

Josetta came in today with a nice black t-shirt with bright green lettering.  I didn’t notice at first what it said until we sat down for our consultation.   It said, “This is the part where I nod and act like I’m listening.”  I laughed.  But then I thought, that would definitely be one case in which we [...]

Hannah’s Writing Center Design

Hannah, one of our student consultants last Spring, came up with this playful writing center design for our new center, taking what the architect proposed one or two leaps forward. It includes writing faeries and an angel of focus, an angel of organization, and an angel of development (I love that: maybe the angels roam [...]