Dr Sock Writes Here

I have been reading Maria Popova's wonderful collection of quotations from writers on writing. You can find it at Brain Pickings . I hav...

Today I was at the the ski shop buying skis and boots for my son for Christmas. My son was with me, of course, to choose the boots and have ...

The Organized Mind Then, as now, printed words were promiscuous "same as it ever was" a kind of parallel, shadow economy  a plate ...

Today is exactly eight weeks and a day since I stepped in a pothole, rolled my left foot over, and fractured my fifth metatarsal bone. The f...

Today I cleaned the toilet. Not only that, I also wiped down the bathroom counter and scrubbed the sink. I also did the laundry. I baked a c...

I am reading a book called The Art of Memoir , by Mary Karr. It is a book on writing, specifically about writing memoir. Karr has written t...

In my job as an academic administrator, I am so embedded in the organization that it can be hard to think of my work with any sense of separ...