I’m very proud to have as my guest on the blog today my student Alexander Westenbroek.  Alex is from Grand Rapids and is pursuing a

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

One of my fondest childhood memories is the weekly bringing home of an enormous stack of books from the library and heaping it next to

For many years, I walked my dog pretty much every day with one of my closest friends and her dog.  In every season.  No matter

Jennifer L. Holberg will be away from the blog for several weeks. Her replacement is T. Jefferson Underhill. Underhill, thinking about a career change, is

Jennifer L. Holberg will be away from the blog for several weeks. Her replacement is T. Jefferson Underhill. Underhill, thinking about a career change, is

Jennifer L. Holberg will be away from the blog for several weeks. Her replacement is T. Jefferson Underhill. Underhill, thinking about a career change, is

Those beautiful, melancholy lines from the Book of Common Prayer—“in the midst of life, we are in death”—have become a kind of leitmotif for me

As long as I have been in the field of English, the humanities have been in “crisis.”  (I’m not going to rehash that whole history