One of the things I worried about when I became a teacher was forgetting what it was like to be a student. I didn’t want to be one of those teachers who expected students to just “get it.” I didn’t want to bulldoze my students with excessive information or overwhelming expectations. Because learning can be [...]
Do you watch House M.D.? On the third season’s last DVD there’s a short sequence on how some of the show’s cast and crew got a little jazz band together – Hugh Laurie himself at the piano (and yes, he even plays “Minnie the Moocher” for all those Jeeves and Wooster fans out there). At [...]
At least once a week, some young whippersnapper (or a cranky elder statesman) prophesies the doom of all the ancient and venerable independent Mormon publications. I think they are wrong, and I will show you why.
The deadline for Segullah’s poetry contest and the Heather Campbell Personal Essay contest is coming up–December 31, 2008. Really, there’s no big secret: it’s a writing contest, women send us their essays and poetry, we choose winners, we publish them. Straightforward. But here are a few things I didn’t realize before I entered it two [...]
Brian Doyle, the editor of Portland Magazine, reflects here on his 30 years as an editor for various venues. Very funny, very insightful, and it even has a Mormon in it! A quick snippet: “Editing is hardly ever what the non-inky world thinks it is, which is copyediting, which is merely the very last and [...]
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