My homey Dean Shareski, whose name fits Saskatechewan perfectly, tagged me for some sort of meme about something like “7 Things You Might Not Know About Me.” Like Dean, I already did a similar meme about eight things, so pardon me for fiddling with this one for the sake of self-pleasuring. I’m going to give [...]

Andrea Hernandez tagged me for this Wordle Meme: 1. Create a wordle from your blog’s RSS feed. 2. Blog it and describe your reaction. Any surprises? 3. Tag others to do the same. 4. Link back here and to where you were first tagged. (I don’t know what “link back here” means, but Technorati is [...]

John Larkin in Oz nudged me to consider playing with the idea he so creatively played with on his own site: “How Far I Roamed as a Child.” John’s post gives the full background of the idea, and a nicely visual guided tour of his own childhood using personal photos and satellite imagery from Google [...]

I always tell people who tell me that I’m going to hell for being decidedly skeptical about myths from pre-scientific times that a) I’ve read the Bible in its entirety three times, and studied world religions and Church history enough to feel 99% certain the myths are simply myths (and that 1% of doubt is [...]

I received this comment recently on my podcast post, “My Suicidal High School Years: A Happy Ending Bullying Story.” The comment is from a teen named Jack, who is experiencing now what I experienced 30 years ago. I’m sharing it because it’s evidence that the meme I’m about to propose – voluntary, as usual – [...]

[Update: I added a complete novel you should be able to guess, just to give you an idea of what this would look like (h/t to Adrienne for the spark).] Going Deeper with Post-Clouds Since a lot of people seemed to enjoy the TweetClouds as Windows of the Soul meme, I thought this bit of [...]

It’s almost 6 p.m. here in Seoul, and that’s bedtime for this nocturne. Before curling up in Morpheus’ arms, I want to throw this screenshot of my Tweetcloud up here (thanks to Cathy Nelson for sharing that one). It’s an interesting little thing, this tag cloud of your most frequent tweet words. The largest words [...]

[Since my students just finished reading Nabokov's Lolita, I thought I'd give their responses to the notion that it shouldn't be taught in upper secondary. This is the third in the Why We Should Teach Lolita in High School series. See Number One here, Number Two here, with many interesting comments. If you want to [...]

{Update 15 April: After reading this and the comments, be sure to read this follow-up post and the comments there. Interesting stuff in those comments.] Constance incarnate Diane Cordell tagged me for this literature-themed meme begun by Paul C. at quoteflections. It’s a fun one for me, for a couple of reasons. But first, here [...]

h/t to @drthomasho on Twitter for this Gary Vaynerchuk tip and a nice change of focus. I’ll make it a voluntary meme. As Gary says, if we can make time for Twitter color wars, we can make time to prop a good person. A fun, lovely idea for the beginning of Spring. My good person [...]