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Appreciations

Once upon a time, I was a manager of people. Yes, a middling middle manager with a team of people who “reported” to me. One of the things I ran around preaching during that five-year stint was that I managed people so that they could “play to their strengths.”
I actually do believe this is a [...]

Posted 14 March 2007 † gordon § Links § Teaching § Writing § Writing craft ‡ Comments (3)

Relieved to Learn That I Could Still Learn: An Interview With Catherine Brady

I wanted to have an interview with Kate Brady as soon as the notions for this site hit my brain. Known in print as Catherine Brady, Kate was the instructor for one of my favorite classes in my last year at USF–a course on the teaching of writing.
Kate’s enthusiasm for and seriousness about the teaching [...]

Posted 26 January 2007 † gordon § Authors § Teaching § Work § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (8)

Writers on Writing

I may have slept on this a bit, but back in November NPR had a series of short interviews called Novel Ideas with writers about writing, much of it about how they deal with blocks. Of special note for me are the interviews with folks I had the privilege of working with [...]

Posted 24 January 2007 † gordon § Links § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (0)