Monthly Archives: July 2016

Acedia–In One Image

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Boz

My initial goal for this post was to discuss acedia in 25 words or less. That opening line (including its ungrammatical modification of a countable noun) was meant as a joke, but it turned out to be not much more laughable than my … Continue reading →

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Meditations All Too Human

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Boz

I teach a college-transfer class called English 112: Researching and Writing in the Disciplines, whose objective is to present a crash course in academic writing across the university curriculum. To that end, and drawing on my experience as a disability examiner … Continue reading →

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Not Exactly Epiphanies

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Boz

At the age of 36, I decided to get a master’s degree in English. I have elsewhere–well, everywhere, including in the introductory lecture of nearly every class I teach–suggested that I was standing in a bookstore, staring at the American literature selection, when … Continue reading →

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Ho-Hum; Or, Whatever Happened to the Capacity for Wonder?

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Boz

As we were driving home from seeing the movie Genius in Chapel Hill, my husband asked me why people don’t read Thomas Wolfe any more. My snappy retort masked what has been for some time an insidious fear: “Because they can no … Continue reading →

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My Name Is Vicki, and I Am a Taphophile

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Boz

1960: My sister, my cousins, and I scrambled into the back of my uncle’s 1948 Ford pick-up and headed with our fathers to the cemetery overlooking the dusty town of Globe, Arizona. We played among the graves while they watered the grass … Continue reading →

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Forever Becoming: A Meditation

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Boz

Written at Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, 11 Nov. 2009 I was only 36, beginning a second graduate program—clearly, I was far from complete.  We who continually reinvent ourselves retain the illusion of eternal becoming far longer than those respectable adults with 2½ … Continue reading →

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A Luddite Reviews the iPad Pro

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Boz

I prefer my books on paper, please. I cancelled my subscription to Time when the editors decided to print photographs in color. I have never owned a dishwasher, but I do own several fountain pens. Although I send text messages to my husband … Continue reading →

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Ode to OED (and Friends)

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Boz

When I was a girl in the dusty mining town of Globe, Arizona, with the sulfur odor in the air when the wind blew from the west, our house had a living room, a kitchen, two bedrooms, and a bathroom … Continue reading →

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