The Englishist

From the mind of an English professor
Real Life

5 Random Things

1. I haven't felt like posting the past few days because I don't feel well. All this time, lactose was destroying me from the inside out and I didn't even know. Sigh. One...

Real Life

Keeping the Streak Alive

I started the reintroduction phase of my elimination diet. I was super excited about the lactose test because that meant I got to eat ICE CREAM. But then my stomach was like,...

Music, TV

From En Vogue to MMC to…Mom?

In an effort to find something to post about tonight, I somehow fell down a YouTube rabbit hole. I still am not sure how it happened. All I know is I wound up watching this...

Music

Akilah!

Today I learned there's a song named "Akilah" from an album titled Akilah! by jazz artist Melvin Sparks. First of all, that exclamation point is everything, and I am here for...

Teaching

On Selfish Teaching

Today's post is inspired by Two Writing Teachers, specifically Deb's post No More Cookie Cutter Teaching. In it, she says: As educators, we need to take ownership of our...

Uncategorized

National Poetry Month!

Ok, so I was planning to write about going to Amy Spalding's book launch for The Summer of Jordi Perez (it was great! Amy is as funny and fun as her books! I won a Hello Kitty...