How can I resist? Some friends of mine in another blog site have been passing this around, and though it’s nothing new, I can’t help but participate: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicise those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on myContinue reading “Books meme”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
My eyes, they are strained
I’ve been going through my students’ online discussion posts this semester, looking at the statistics, and I think I’m about ready to collapse. So far this semester, I’ve written 276 discussion posts. Many of them are short replies to questions or comments on other posts, but several have been lengthy essays. But that’s not theContinue reading “My eyes, they are strained”
Typos
I ought to put this on a stamp and keep it on my desk, so I can just slap it on a paper whenever I find cause: “Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in yourContinue reading “Typos”
Happy Passover!
Happy Passover (Hebrew: Pesach or Pesakh)!
National Nonviolence Week
Please visit this site. If you have a MySpace page, consider joining the group.
Happy Easter!
Catholic, Orthodox (Coptic, Greek, and Russian), and Lutheran views (which I’ve included for regional reasons and because Lutherism is one of the earliest–perhaps the earliest–of the Protestant denominations). If I’ve left out a doctrinal view you prefer, feel free to post it in a reply–I’d love to see some other beliefs. Germanic/Pagan traditions
San Francisco and Pop Culture
As I did in New York, I decided to write blog entries about my conference in San Francisco, so my students can see what I’m up to at these conferences (this one over Spring Break no less!). But this time around, my conference hotel is not offering free wireless, so I’m having to write theseContinue reading “San Francisco and Pop Culture”
Happy St. Patty’s Day!
St. Patrick (Plus, some fact vs. fiction.
Tibet
I’m in Chicago, working on my novel and some short stories and preparing for my reading at PCA/ACA next week while my wife attends an important Intellectual Freedom committee meeting with ALA. I plan to post about my pop-culture conference in San Fransisco, so I had intended to spend this week posting a preview ofContinue reading “Tibet”
Compassion from students
Last Thursday, when I read the first news reports of the shooting at Northern Illinois University — less than 150 miles from my campus here in Wisconsin — I started considering ways in which to address the situation with my students. My initial impulse was to dedicate the next class period to discussing the shootingsContinue reading “Compassion from students”
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