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Let the games begin! This episode was more exciting than the previous one. The characters played cricket! Miss Denham smiled (for real)! Miss Lambe was “bundled”! Miss Heywood set out for London! Let’s start with cricket. I don’t know how to play this game. It’s British, involves a ball and bat, and looks like baseball. Read more

#whatprofessorswear Winter is surely not the time to be thinking about hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are the stuff of spring, summer, and warm, sunny days. Hummingbirds make you think of flowers, nectar, and greenery. They do not make you think of frigid temperatures, snowfall, or–worse–dead grass and barren tree branches. But sometimes we have to bring a Read more

#whatprofessorswear This post might make you feel uncomfortable. I reveal something very personal about myself, something that you probably don’t want to think about. This post is about breast prosthetics, or what the breast cancer community colloquially calls “foobs.” In my memoir I have a chapter called “Foobs,” and I made up my own definition. Read more

After enjoying episode 3 so much, I was disappointed in episode 4. It had the potential to be interesting, but it ended up feeling rather slow and boring. I guess all series need that one episode–you know, the one that is filler. That filler is setting up future episodes, yes. I still think that this Read more

Again, Sanditon does not disappoint. Case in point: Maximillian Fuchs. How does one pronounce the name of this doctor? 🙂 Tom Parker says it as “fucks” while other characters say “fukes.” First we meet Dr. Fuchs, also known as Herr Fuchs, but we don’t know his name. But the joke is not lost. Then when Read more

It’s the episode we’ve all been waiting for our whole lives in any TV series: it’s the “OMG, the pineapple is rotten and full of maggots” episode! Yes, that was delightful, wasn’t it? What a symbolic moment. Something’s rotten in the seaside village of Sanditon. (See what I did there?) Could it be the step-siblings Read more

I have to say that I expected to hate this show. I had read that Andrew Davies took the entirety of Austen’s unfinished novel and smashed it into the first ten minutes of the series. He was telling the truth–that is exactly what he did–but still I enjoyed the first episode, despite what all of Read more

It’s a new year and a new me. OK, I’m not new, but my hair color is! I decided to go bold on January 14 and color my hair a shocking blue color. I have always wanted to do this. As I said to some faculty today, I am working my way through the rainbow. Read more

Ends of years are times to reflect, to look back on what you did and what happened to you in the previous twelve months. This year is a particularly reflective one, as I think about how much I have changed physically. It’s also the end of a decade, and it’s fascinating, yet jarring, to see Read more

#whatprofessorswear Last week one of my friends, Laura S., announced on Facebook that Wednesday, November 13, 2019, is World Kindness Day. “The purpose of World Kindness Day,” Gabriella van Rijj writes, “is to highlight good deeds in the community, focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness that binds us.” I don’t know about you, but Read more