Today while grading papers, I saw not one, not two, but three blue jays outside my window. Their color reminds me of the pieces on found wood on which I have been working in between the usual on my plate. Both have a shade of blue that reminds me of the sea. The birds were… Continue reading on music, memphis and blue jays
I know I am in the final stretch of a semester when I am posting photographs of flowers in my yard. It does not mean there isn’t work before me. Indeed, I am still prepping for courses and just graded three more papers. It does mean that things are slowing down for a while… Continue reading final stretch
A chance meeting with a colleague created the impetus for me to return to the University of Alabama’s Hoole Library, a place I haven’t been since I taught a course on antebellum America. What was special about this visit was relearning how to use machines that let me study old documents. It’s been years. Even… Continue reading back at it
Just getting over a bad flu. Got through a lecture in today’s “American Civilization to 1865” and had last Beats Lab for students enrolled in “Bebop to Hip Hop: Music and Young America.” It was the last time I asked to skim the journals they have been keeping as they make beats that they will… Continue reading she grew up in brooklyn…
As I watch the Houston Astros try to win the World Series for the first time, I am reviewing possible books for my Spring 2018 “Gender, Race and Urban History” graduate class. That’s like me and most people. I am doing at least two things at one time. I know a win will be… Continue reading spring 2018 upon us
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