Professor,
Communication, Arts, and the Humanities
The University of Maryland Global Campus
I hope you had a great holiday! Hard to believe this marks the unofficial end of summer — it is 90 degrees up here in Maryland, and the community pool was packed. I dug around a little to see what Emmett was doing for Labor Day 100 years ago. He […]
My hometown television station featured this today: Usually, when a billboard is vandalized, someone gets upset, but the law firm of Morgan & Morgan said they liked it, and will keep it up, until MSU loses a game this year. I say one of the law partners MUST be an […]
Happy Maroon Friday, everyone! College football season starts tomorrow; my beloved Mississippi State Bulldogs aren’t even RANKED this week. Huh. I seem to remember a certain team that also entered the first week of college football season unranked in 2014, only to climb to the top of college football rankings […]
If you stop by Congressional Cemetery here in DC in August (a great place to visit, btw), you may be in for a surprise. Goats, people! Eco-goats to be precise. They do a good job, too. Every year, Congressional Cemetery hires a herd of goats to clear the weeds, poison […]
It is awfully quiet around here today. I’m working from my home office for a change, for the chance to delve deep into the second chapter of Emmett’s book. I chose to work from home today because for the first time in — always — the nest is empty. At […]
A friend from the program sent me this meditation tonight. I was telling him how I wished I could move Emmett’s book along, and how sometimes I feel like I have to force myself to write to keep things moving. I thought you’d like to see it, too. The title […]
I would love for this to happen to Emmett’s book one day, but at the rate I’m going, I think it would probably have to be a muu muu of a shirt. I love this!
While looking around on Shorpy.com, I found an ad that was painted on the side of a building, one much like the one below, that made me wonder — was this one of Emmett’s preferred brands of whiskey? Personally, I can see Emmett sidling up to the bar at The […]
You know I love my students. I love teaching writing to my students. So, you have to know that this person was never one of my students… …else, she’d know how to spell her curse words correctly. This reminds me of a message I received from a student almost two […]
We have a saying in the program: Plan, but don’t plan the outcome. This is a great saying for me. It helps me manage my expectations of life; as in, I cannot control other people, places, and things. I can only control my attitude and how I respond to things. […]
Tell my story. 