Posts by: dawn

inside –> out

"There are trees in our hearts." Nalini Nadkarni On Facebook yesterday, my friend, Betty Schlueter, (who is an amazing photographer), posted a link to the TED video of Nalini Nadkarni,…

nothin’ but blue skies

I was in San Francisco last week for the annual ATTW conference and CCCC convention. I was absolutely thrilled to go west, to see mountains, bluer than blue skies, warm…

let freedom ring

When we think of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech, it is often the words "I have a Dream" or "Free at last" that we remember best.…

Oh Hulu, how ye failed me

Dear Hulu, We've been friends a very, very long time (by Internet standards). Do you remember, more than a year ago, when I became a beta tester in your closed…

exploration minnesota

Over at his blog, Connor lists 72 items he'd like to do in Minnesota before 2010. I'm here for at least the next four years, and I'd like to accomplish…

no name

I was on Netflix, cruising around, browsing for new DVDs to add to my queue, when I came across the blurb for the movie Bubble. I tend to like quirky,…

a year has gone

  ... and I still miss him as if it were yesterday. Each morning I wake up, and this photo greets me from the wall across from my bed. A…

all roads lead to congo

Several years ago, I read Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. Of all of her books, this is my favorite and was my latest foray into reading about women in Africa,…

context is everything

cogdogblog recently blogged about goingtorain, the website that gives you a weather forecast in the simplest form possible. Is it going to rain? In my case, it was snow (and…

to the letter

I teach a Technical and Professional Writing course for juniors and seniors in disciplines across the curriculum. We discuss and practice writing in many different forms: correspondence, instructional, data analysis,…