“sensibilized” and “hiddenly” two of many words in student papers I doubted were real. Fortunately, I looked them up and I was wrong. Must remember to not open my mouth […]

Friedrich Burgmüller, where you been all my life? Nice going.

He had formulas for everything; he liked math. In the Karl Marx course I took in 2018, one thing I found amusing was his love of equations. Surplus value divided […]

I was watching the Usual Suspects trailer. The first credit of actors is Stephen Baldwin and the last was unknown Kevin Spacey, it was 1995. I have a student named […]

That thing about every reaction creating an opposite equal reaction, I’m thinking thought might be subject to it too. Don’t we make decisions and frequently fail to achieve them? Aren’t […]

In class there was an album presentation the other day, I’m Your Man by Leonard Cohen. The three students did a lot of research but I was surprised when they […]

I liked accompanying Sam Larkin thirty years later in another incarnation of Fat Albert’s coffee house. The original place was very different, basement of a church and more youth. Now […]

A girl in the new lyric writing class wrote, “I just want to wail sometimes, all my clouds and rain. My disappointment voices, my mental pain. Trouble looms and ain’t […]

I marked a lot of papers today and many more to go. Took a break and viewed the Picard trailer. The most exciting thing, realizing Amanda Plummer is the villain. […]

The new limbs on the cactus grow towards the full spectrum light and if I leave it alone, eventually it falls over, no worries it’s accomplishing the mission, growing to […]