Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok

I just read the article “The First Lady’s Lady Friend” by Kenneth Lynn (from The Air-Line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing about America, 1983), about Eleanor Roosevelt’s love affair with Lorena Hickok — well, mostly about the way in which Hickok and F.D. Roosevelt biographers minimize it (or, in Doris Faber’s [...]

bumper sticker

I’ve seen this bumper sticker a couple times in my apartment building’s parking lot: “Sometimes ignorance comes disguised as tradition.”
Very true. Or, better — injustice comes disguised as tradition.
But, then again, both ignorance and injustice also come disguised as progress, too.
Ignorance and injustice just like to hide behind other movements, other categories of thought. People [...]

even more for religion in the writing classroom bibliography

I’m baaaack!
Anderson, Chris. Teaching as Believing: Faith in the University. Baylor UP, 2004. Ordered via Amazon, early April ‘08.
Thelin, William Howard. A PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF A WRITING CLASSROOM USING POLITICIZED READINGS AS A CORPUS FOR ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS. Diss. Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 1997. ILL’d 4-10-08 297676
ABSTRACT. This study examines a first year writing course [...]

privilege meme

Here’s my version of the privilege meme that’s going around (see Michael’s and Chanel’s versions).
Privilege meme: Bold the items that apply to you.
1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college (on a football scholarship)
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college (nope — she wanted to do the have-the-kids thing right away)
5. Have any relative [...]

[journal entry] on Erika Lindemann’s “The Composing Process” (Part One of A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers)

September 30, 2007
Whew. After struggling with James Berlin on ideology and rhetoric, I felt downright relaxed with Erika Lindemann’s section on the writing process. Not that she didn’t teach me a lot in this chapter, but it was the kind of learning that sparks connections with the past and questions for the future [...]

yay wordpress!

Yay! WordPress finally offers a three-column template with a customizable banner.  I’ve been waitin’ for one of these!