Red Room Where the Writers Are

Sometimes at the tiny tail end of the semester, just as the very last assignment is due, a student will bail o

I suppose there could be some kind of sick twisted joy in handing out grades, but I don't enjoy it at all.  But it's part of what I do:  I make people do things and then evaluate how they do them

Every semester, I ask my students to go out into the world to hear a writer, a writer who is working on a or the type of writing that we've been reading and writing about all semester.  In my fres

I have a friend who is fluent in two languages, good in another.  She travels in Europe easily, finding a way to make sense of even the languages she doesn't speak.  So it was with some confidenc

Pounding out a novel at 1667 words per day is hell.

A therapist friend of mine once said that when her practice grew smaller, people leaving the work and moving on to other things or other therapies or other countries, she used to fret.  She would

One month gone since I start to work in buffet at privat university ‘’UNIVERSUM’’,

 My friend Gil Mansergh did his master's thesis on creativity in children, and his e-mail brought up some interesting points. He said:

In my twenty years of teaching at the college level, I've had some very interesting conversations with students, some not mine.  I've heard wonderful and horrible things about the world, writing,

August 29, 2008