Sunday Afternoon Potpourri: Palm Sunday 2026 Edition The view from my office is mostly sunny this afternoon. I got a fresh crop of papers from the frosh earlier this week, and we aren’t too far from Gradeapalooza, but I’m going to steal a…

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Monday Afternoon Potpourri: Spring Break Edition Campus is quiet and parking is relatively abundant, a foretaste of the summer break that is a couple of months away. I’m in the office anyway, at least in part because my recliner here is com…

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Sunday Afternoon Potpourri: A Brown Study on a Sunny Day I find myself with a sense of doing lots of things without a corresponding sense of accomplishing anything. I’m teaching my classes, grading papers, fielding student questions, and attending …

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Newberry Crime Writing Workshop Newberry Crime Writing Workshop (NCWW), an intensive 4-week writers’ workshop for developing crime and mystery authors, taught by major figures in the field.

Just a reminder -- we're now accepting applications for the inaugural Newberry Crime Writing Workshop! Give us a look at www.newberry.edu/academics/ac.... We'd love to hear from you!

, although a teetotaling Presbyterian, feels an abiding affection for Edward Fitzgerald's rendition of Omar Khayyam.

is listening to the campus radio station, and is reminded that he is thankful to live in the era of Stan Ridgway.
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Newberry Crime Writing Workshop Newberry Crime Writing Workshop (NCWW), an intensive 4-week writers’ workshop for developing crime and mystery authors, taught by major figures in the field.

Are you a crime or mystery writer, or would you like to be one? Do you know someone like that? The Newberry Crime Writing Workshop is now accepting applications for the 2026 session!
www.newberry.edu/academics/ac...

Saturday Afternoon Potpourri: Just Chilling For the third time in my nearly 23 years here in Mondoville, we’re having what I would think of as significant snow. At this point, there’s maybe an inch and change, but we’re tol…

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Welcome to 2026, Population Us So Happy New Year, everyone! Great to see you! Mrs. M and I ushered the old year out the door with a smooch and our customary fizzy grape juice before retiring to the sounds of the Mondoville Amate…

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Is beginning to fill a major lacuna in his reading, with Gibbon’s DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Using the abridged version for now, but may ditch the training wheels later.

Christmas, 2025 Christmas in Mondoville is not the stuff of Currier and Ives — it’s sunny today, and we expect a high in the upper 70s. Culturally, it feels inapt, but as I’ve noted before, that&…

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Talking with Mrs. M yesterday, we came up with the concept of a service that delivers random stuff from dollar stores.
We'll call it "PoorDash."

Sunday Afternoon Potpourri: There and Back Again Edition It’s sunny this afternoon, but the temperature is dropping, with a predicted low of 20 overnight. Down here, that’s apocalyptic, Ninth Circle stuff, but I still bear enough of my years …

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Thursday Afternoon Potpourri: Wandering About Edition I made a quick run to Real City today, but got home a bit sooner than I might have expected to. So why not blog a bit? It isn’t as though I’ve been burning through the pixels of late, s…

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Sunday Afternoon Potpourri: Not Quite a Month Later… Really, Mondo? Four weeks between posts? Yes, and I apologize. Gradeapalooza wrapped up on Tuesday, and with three of my classes being Froshcomp, my brain was more or less mulch by the time I got t…

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Gradeapalooza finitus est.

Super proud of NCAA D2 National Runners-Up Newberry College Field Hockey! 20-1!

And your Newberry College Wolves field hockey squad plays for the national title on Sunday, having throttled West Chester U 3-0 in the semifinals! #AmericasTeam #GoWolves

suddenly finds himself missing the cottage fries with melted cheese at the Chili Company in Florence, KY, or maybe he's just missing 1985-86.

And your Newberry College Wolves advance to the NCAA D2 National semifinals in field hockey, squashing the Bentley Falcons 4-1! #AmericasTeam #GoWolves

And the hits keep coming, as the Newberry Wolves Field Hockey team takes the South Atlantic Conference Tournament title, improving to 18-0 on the season! #PlayoffsBaby!

Give it up for your 2025 South Atlantic Conference football champions, the Newberry Wolves! #PlayoffsBaby

QotD: "It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless Literature of sinful man." -- St. John Henry Newman, from THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY, 1852.

Sunday Afternoon Potpourri: Gradeapalooza Approaches I’m pretty well caught up on grading, at least until Tuesday. I have a paper coming in from my film kids then, but the real deluge begins next week. The college reshuffled our calendar so tha…

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Mondoville Saturday Afternoon I had to pick up a couple of things at WalMart after lunch today, and figured I’d take the opportunity to gas up Mrs. M’s ride, seeing as she has taken mine to Real City for some retail…

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A Child's Garden of Psychedelia

So I'm doing guest lectures on psychedelic rock this week in my friend's class on the 1960s, and someone suggested I put together a playlist. I made myself stop after the first 100. :)

If you're interested...
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Saturday Potpourri: So. Sixty. Mrs. M, the Prof, and Bananas Foster at Figaro today. Yep — I’ve made another trip around the sun. My social media feeds are rife with well wishes, and if I fail to acknowledge any of t…

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B’con Wrap-Up, 2025 Sorry it took me so long to get back here, but I spent the past week catching up on the grading from the week before. The good news is that I’m caught up with that until Monday, so I can catc…

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Friday Afternoon Potpourri: Killer Nashville and Other Cool Stuff Edition So there’s a full week of classes put to bed, with initial papers from my freshpeeps coming in this evening. Let’s get caught up! *** Last week was the first week of classes, but mine w…

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