Teaching Today: Frontiers or Frontlines? An Address to Faculty at the UW Colleges Colloquium I can’t expect to tell you anything new about teaching because you experience it face-to-face routinely whereas the people I inform are mostly unseen, are free … Continue reading
On May 24, 2017, it was my pleasure to give the keynote address for the UW Colleges colloquium at UW-Fox Valley. The audience of faculty from around the state was lively and attentive. The topic “Teaching Today: Frontiers or Frontlines?” … Continue reading
Listen to Wisconsin Public Radio on Saturday, May 13, from 11 am to noon and Sunday, May 14, from 8 to 9 am Central Time as I match wits with the seasoned panelists of Boston-based Says You! Listen to the … Continue reading
According to a survey of filmgoers, it’s…the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Is it the green face, the long crooked fingers and hook nose or that raspy but convincing voice? Whatever it was–and is–Margaret Hamilton’s witch wears … Continue reading
The Boston-based public radio show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy will be recording in La Crosse on Sunday, May 7, and yours truly will be a guest panelist. I was on the show several years ago–you may have … Continue reading
On Friday, March 31, from 11 am to 1 pm, a group of Viterbo University music faculty will perform music from 1917, the year that 9XM, now Wisconsin Public Radio, signed on. It’ll be a special two-hour Midday broadcast complete … Continue reading
“Sour Grapes” A tokay from a pedigreed vine Boasted, “No one has flavor like mine, But I’m stuck with this bunch That’s not fit to make punch….” His complaint tapered off in a wine. … Continue reading
I introduced one of my favorite authors at the Wisconsin Book Festival last night. Garth Stein was in Madison to read from his new novel A SUDDEN LIGHT, which I’ll be reading on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chapter A Day early … Continue reading
The Southwest Harbor Library event on June 3 was an adventure for all, and a good time for those who jumped the wall or pushed through construction to get to the reading and snickerdoodles. After the reading of Chapter 1, … Continue reading
Southwest Harbor Public Library — Tuesday, June 3, 5:30 pm*** Jesup Library, Bar Harbor — Thursday, June 5, 7 pm*** Sherman’s Books, Portland — Friday, June 6, 7 pm*** Rumors abound of snickerdoodles and prizes….