I can’t stop thinking about content and form.  Hardly the thoughts I would choose to have burrowed into the Unforgettable realm of my mind.  But that is exactly where the age-old pair has ensconced themselves.  They will not leave me.  So, I shall escort them out in this posting.  I hope.
In the last two postings, [...]

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This week, when Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan was questioned by Congress for approval, Senator Lisa Murkowski commented on Duncan’s son, who was conspicuously reading a book behind his father.  The New York Times noted that Murkowski commented  she was “glad to see that your boy is there reading books instead of playing with an [...]

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Sociologist Laurel Richardson thinks that writing itself is a form of inquiry.  For her, writing is not something you do only after you have figured out what you want to say.  Writing is how you think it.  In a chapter on writing as a form of inquiry (Richardson, 2000), Richardson writes that “by writing in [...]

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