FROM THE ARCHIVES: out of sequence
NOTE: Still working my way through the galleys for The Calculus Diaries, but the process made me remember this post from April 2006 about the …
Poetry
a few choice words from the red pen brigade
Okay, the Semester From HellTM is over and I'm back to my usual teaching schedule, which means you'll be hearing from me more often. Part …
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science secretary haiku blues
I'm working on a post about hosting/hiring foreign national scientists, which is epic, but I feel Pantone 282 blue. I have an epic amount of …
the origins
It's Poetry Month, peeps, and somehow, I screwed my courage to the sticking place and signed up to write a poem a day, from prompts, …
REPOST: flea collar
[NOTE: I’m all better now, or mostly so, but now must scramble madly to catch up on all the work I couldn’t do when I …
my funny valentine
For this was on seynt Volantynys day Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make. The above lines were written by Geoffrey Chaucer in …
rhyme schemes: science poetry
This was a post I hadn’t planned to write. It leaped out at me while I was trolling the back issues of the science blog …