(De)Coding Closeness
The article “The experimental generation of interpersonal closeness: a procedure and some preliminary findings,” says nothing of the Internet, or of Facebook, which for years I had been thinking of as...
View ArticleBinge Storytelling and the Brain
Summer is here and I am not on contract. Between exhausting bouts of research and even more exhausting bouts of socializing for the first time since last summer, I have been binging. One evening each...
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What’s in a Name? The Controversy of Yi-Fen Chou
This article was written collaboratively by Amaris Feland Ketcham and Jaime R. Wood. After exchanging a week’s worth of Facebook comments on Michael Derrick Hudson/“Yi-Fen Chou” we realized we had a...
View ArticleHow do you resolve to write in the new year?
On the brink of the New Year, a friend and I were discussing how to work writing into our resolutions. Each year I make some kind of writing resolution; but I try to stay away from vague resolutions,...
View ArticleVocabulary on the Endangered List
A friend just passed me an article about Oxford Dictionary’s decision to replace “nature words” with “technology words” to save space in their Junior Oxford Dictionary. So, if a word-curious adolescent...
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Enchanted Watermelon Seeking Art Submissions
Enchanted Watermelon is seeking art submissions for a Loteria-themed coloring book. A portion of the proceeds from each coloring book will benefit an Albuquerque nonprofit organization that help...
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Stage Fright
School is about to start, which means I am fiddling with my syllabi. One class is brand new, and I believe that I could mess with a new syllabus for all of eternity, tweaking phrases, adding and...
View ArticleI Saw You
Some years ago, while reading the Kokinshu for the first time, I was struck by a thought that many of the love poems read like I Saw You ads in the local alternative weekly newspaper. In the Kokinshu,...
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Two Cool Projects for Students
1. Transcribe a document for the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian is looking for help transcribing original, handwritten texts to improve their readability and searchability. They say: Our goal with this...
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Hello? Is it me you’re looking for?
To my students, the “real world” sits just beyond the classroom. It is a space in flux, moving and changing much more quickly than academia. In education, there is a creative tension between an...
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