Education: Time in Silence

Serendipity is a wonderful thing.
I woke up this morning to teach, only to be informed that the water main outside our campus had burst, and school was cancelled. Yes! An entire day was mine for the taking, only, what would I do with this new-found time? Sleep? Laundry? A film [...]

Love in the Western World by Denis de Rougemont: Book I

Like so many other things in my life, I’ve found someone else’s good idea, wished I had though of it first, and then decided to go ahead and do it anyway. Mike, you’ve inspired me to begin posting summaries and sundry thoughts about the various books I’m reading. Most likely I will use [...]

Response to Wes on Drama and Scripture

Wes Vander Lugt raised some interesting questions on his blog the other day, and I’d like to engage them because I think he’s on to something. His recent musings on drama and doctrine (undoubtedly influenced by the work of Kevin Vanhoozer) offer possibilities and challenges. Being a sympathetic participant in the discussion, I’ll [...]

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,But sad mortality o’ersways their power,How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O how shall summer’s honey breath hold outAgainst the wrackful siege of battering daysWhen rocks impregnable are not so stout,Nor gates of steel so strong, but time [...]

Sheesh

Danny Patterson preached at Colleyville Presbyterian this morning, and his sermon reminded me of Dante and Dostoevsky. He was speaking about bearing one another’s burden’s, which got me thinking about mount purgatory in the Divine Comedy. The saints travelling up mount purgatory must begin with the first circle, which is Pride, and bear [...]

Camping

Some friends and I went camping this weekend at the LBJ Grasslands, a reserve area managed by the USDA Forest Service. It was loads of fun, and only about an hour away from my apartment. The first night we found a nice spot with plenty of pine trees and a ravine, where we built a [...]

Lyric

A colleague and I recently had the enormous privilege of chatting with Dr. Louise Cowan, a retired professor of English at the University of Dallas. It was truly a time I will remember for the rest of my life. The occasion for our conversation was the difficult task of defining lyric, a process Dr. [...]

Almost there . . .

I am almost done with a paper I am writing on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (will post on that later). I need to finish that tonight so that I can be ready to visit Dr. Cowan in the morning. Afterwards, we have a teacher appreciation lunch, and then I am travelling to Decatur for [...]

Reading and Writing

Wham! Rowan Atkinson, who has travelled back in time, slugs William Shakespeare right on the chin. “That is for every student for the next 400 years!” I love it.
Seriously though, I’m working on a paper for my Shakespeare class. It’s on Much Ado About Nothing (hence the name of this blog). Things have been slow [...]

Attempting to Reconnect . . .

After many months of wayward backsliding, I’ve decided to return to blogging. A few of my friends made the same effort within the last couple of weeks, and so I made the choice to rededicate my life to blogging and once again accept it into my heart.
By way of catching up, I’ll offer a [...]