December 2011
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“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a...”
– E. S.
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June Hymn
Here’s a hymn to welcome in the day, Heralding a summer’s early sway And all the bulbs all coming in To begin The thrushes bleating battle with the wrens Disrupts my reverie again.
Pegging clothing on the line, Training jasmine how to vine Up the arbor to your door And more. You’re standing on the landing with the war You shouldered all the night before.
And once upon it, The...
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Reading List, Spring Semester 2012
Homobok and Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York by Stephen Crane
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern
Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Adventures of Huckleberry...
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Excerpt from "Eating Animals"
Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, “I could not have slept tonight if I had left those poor creatures on the ground and not restored them to their mother.” He did not make (though he...
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“Darling, you asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“The indulgent 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009
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“Love is All” by The Tallest Man On...
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"Have Read" List, Fall Semester 2011
Dionysus: Myth and Cult by Walter Otto
Doing Grammar by Max Morenberg
The Epic of Gilgamesh
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Odyssey by Homer
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Bright’s Passage by Josh Ritter (will finish)
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The most pleasurable of these to read...
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To Be an Educator
To be a teacher is to be, first and foremost, a role model. Students—consciously or otherwise—will be watching me, noting what I do, say, and how I act. Because of this, I must live what I teach. I want to show them how much my life has been changed through literature and writing and how, if they take control of their own education, this knowledge can seep into their minds and souls and change...
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“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him...”
– The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky