Pocahontas County Fare

My computational hours are still taken up with preparations for the classes I'm teaching, but Sherry Chandler has posted a miscellany o...

Since 2006, I've participated in a "silent poetry reading" for the Feast Day of St. Brigid (or in honor of some more pagan Br...

jstor opens limited free access option non-subscribing scholars | Inside Higher Ed : "The depletion of the traditional professoriate ha...

As part of the "adjunct army" that teaches a great chunk of the post-secondary academic courses, I'm painfully conscious of t...

Apropos of the SOPA/PIPA controversy last week, I've revised my short paper on digital copyright issues written for a local history proj...

Via Mirabilis.ca : A long sentence is worth the read --by Pico Iyer . Not everyone wants to be reduced to a sound bite or a bumper sticker....

Sometimes I teach undergraduate college classes. As an adjunct faculty member, I don't pick the textbooks or write my own syllabus, so I...

This is wonderful, and Taylor Mali has much more, like:

I'm back! Don't adjust your RSS feed. Pocahontas County Fare is being served once again. Gainful employment is a feast-or-famine af...

Sometimes a blog can be a handy online filing cabinet for things like this: 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills . It...

The last few weeks I've been spending a lot of time with Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County by William T. Price (1901), which is...

I've never been great at shifting gears mentally, so my current work configuration offers me a real challenge. I'm teaching courses...

Lately, I've had to check an Internet forum for updates on a topic important to my work. The forum allows anonymous postings, and it rem...

I'm having one of those lapses in enthusiasm. After months of playing with content management systems, loading them up with "conten...

I signed up for National Blog Posting Month for January. These days, I seem to need a little kick in the pants to complete posts and put t...

I've written 30 posts in 30 days for November Is National Blog Posting Month , although I haven't posted each day. At the same ti...

In an attempt to get back on track blogging with "30 Posts in 30 Days" I've been sifting through my collection of half-writte...

I've signed on for November Is National Blog Posting Month again this year. Other duties and projects have pushed writing and photo e...

Sherry Chandler tagged me for the "six unspectacular things about you" meme. I actually still owe Sherry a post for the page 123...

I have mixed feelings when I read snide articles like Greed In the Name Of Green--To Worshipers of Consumption: Spending Won't Save the ...