An Hour A Day

A Princeton University professor named Johannes Haushofer recently made news by publishing a " c.v. of failures ," a public list o...

Last week my children's literature class had one of its highlights: our "class trip" to the children's room at the Putnam ...

The semester which stretched before me as a blank stretch of new-fallen snow back in February now has just four weeks of classes before we h...

I am currently teaching the hardest course I've ever taught, a philosophy department course on "The Ethics of Immigration Policy....

Today is the day before April. I've blogged several times about this favorite poem of my childhood by Mary Carolyn Davies.  The D...

I have spent my whole adult life simultaneously pursuing three different careers: 1) children's book author; 2) children's literat...

One day this week, here at little DePauw University in tiny Greencastle, Indiana, I attended not one, not two, not three, but FOUR talks (in...