We Go With Him

On and off, or maybe a little more than that, I have questioned my youthful decision to study Comparative Literature for my doctorate rather than... Read more →

I used often to link this post on writing about difficult things aka It’s the End of the World as We Know It and have... Read more →

1) Before you start teaching online and as you prepare to do so, consider: What was the best online interaction you have had, one that... Read more →

Plato’s critique of writing in his dialogue Phaedrus is my admittedly unlikely starting point for a how-to guide about how to teach online. This dialogue... Read more →

The whole world is learning remotely now and a lot of us are not happy about it. Meeting students via Zoom is not even a... Read more →

Long story, but I would never have been able to put together the above without -- you guessed it -- 19 long and good years... Read more →

Hilsdorf 203 (my old office at Saint Peter's) For 8 1/2 years I was the Classics professor at Saint Peter's University in Jersey City. In... Read more →

Further proof that Dr. Chew Cannot Draw. Evidence from earlier times. (I also can't sing, which has not stopped me from regaling a Latin student... Read more →

-- and also teach two community college composition courses, it is not a bad idea to get up from your desk and leave the medical... Read more →

Do you freeze, cry, scream, stomp your feet, get mad and say angry things at whoever (known or unknown) happens to be in your immediate... Read more →

As it's just before the ides of November (the 13th), Fall Semester MMXIII is coming to an end. In my class on Greek Tragedy (as... Read more →

Charlie has had something of a 'sleep schedule' for the past two (Monday and Tuesday) nights: Asleep at 7/8pm. Awake from 12 midnight on. Between... Read more →

Somewhere amid cleaning up the faithful white car after Charlie's gastro-anxiety got the better of him and driving in Jersey horse country to meet him... Read more →

Rather ironically, I finished this Guardian piece on the value of face-to-face interactions in college teaching typing on my laptop across from a student (our... Read more →

When we talked with Charlie's neurologist about changing his medications, it was suggested that we consider him staying at a certain facility in south Jersey.... Read more →

Can't believe it will be spring break at Jim's and my respective schools the week after next. I'm just a bit behind where I wanted... Read more →

On Friday (21.12.12), Jim mailed off half the holiday presents (I'm still packing the rest) and exams are all graded though not all grades posted... Read more →

I taught my last class of fall semester 2012 on a big wave of emotions. I'd been thinking a lot about Charlie going off to... Read more →