This morning I sat on my front porch and read an OLD (Feb. 2008) copy of the Chronicle, because it had an article covering the Blackboard/Desire2Learn patent dispute. Even though I know the outcome, I am still interested in how it gets covered in publications of higher ed. I then began to peruse the latest CCC. In the midst of cramming in a survey of women’s literature and feminist criticism for my summer course, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy “my” field and “my” work, how much there is that I’m missing when I’m not looking outside the pages of a Norton Anthology.

Here’s hoping that I can continue to devote a bit of time here and there to my own scholarship, even while I’m really enjoying a return trip to Renaissance literature written by women (scarce as it is).

In fact, I could pretty much just borrow (steal?) Dr. B’s resolutions. Those pretty much cover what I want 2008 to be — minus the racquetball, and our date night consists of not leaving the house and watching Project Runway.

Anyhow, as are all new blogs (and old blogs for that matter), this one is a work in progress. The blogroll is unorganized. I haven’t played with every possible widget yet. The picture is probably just a stand-in for now (**coming up — an attempt at explaining why this blog is a blog about writing and not about summer gardening and cooking…or rather an attempt at explaining why the URL has cake in it and the title has June in it).