Author Archives: Will
Teaching is About Relationships
This week’s readings were all about using technology to open up teaching and learning and to take advantage of the “abundance” of teaching materials, expertise, and networks. These pieces all strike me as fine, as far as they go, but … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Life, Teaching
Tagged fi, instructional technology, twitter, umwdomains
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The Virtue of Deadlines
Today I discovered another virtue of the Faculty Initiative on Digital Identity: it provides deadlines. This is a truth I have long understood about writing, about the academy, and about myself: it’s really hard to produce anything worthwhile without a … Continue reading
The Quotidianness of Digital Identity
This week I have been thinking about digital identity as a process, an insight that emerged from a serendipitous overlap between an email conversation with a friend and the the week’s readings for the UMW Domain of One’s Own Faculty … Continue reading
Damn Yankees
The Civil War is being refought in the UMW Faculty Dining Room, but this time, the South has won.
Just another Sunday afternoon in Fredericksburg
Yesterday I got to spend the afternoon reading and writing at Hyperion Espresso, Fredericksburg’s main coffeeshop. It was a real treat, because life has been so busy recently that I haven’t had time to sit and think and absorb the … Continue reading
Apparently “Gay” Really Does Mean “Happy”
According to this new study out of the Open University in England, couples without kids are happier than couples with kids. And gay couples are the happiest of all. So apparently back when they were calling you gay in middle … Continue reading
Midcentury Love
I have often argued that the square, blocky buildings of the 1940s-1970s that dominate American cityscapes don’t deserve all the hate that they get. A lot of them have very nice proportions, and I find their minimal adornment preferable to … Continue reading
Congrats to the Mack Pack
I had a great bunch of thesis students this year. I learned halfway through the semester that a bunch of them had been carpooling to the Library of Congress and had dubbed themselves “the Mack Pack.” (Also, apparently they dubbed … Continue reading
Christmas Approaches in Virginia
I can’t help it, I get sentimental around Christmastime. Too much early 20th century British literature as a child, I suppose. I get a contact high from nostalgia. Anyway, out friends Andy and Eric gave us this Christmas cactus last … Continue reading
Posted in Squirrels that Caught My Attention
Tagged Andy, Brian, Christmas, Eric, Fredericksburg
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It’s Tough to Do the Red White and Blue
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to sit in traffic on I-95 for hours and hours of Thanksgiving traffic between Fredericksburg and Long Island. It occurred to me, watching the long parades of brake lights, that no state has made … Continue reading
