The Untimely Typewriter:Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction

I finally have taken a bite out of the apple. I bought an iPhone XR, betraying my commitment to simplified tech. I had several reasons for doing so: 1) Wifi connections are too unreliable at RV parks, where I shall be doing work for Cold Hard Type this summer; 2) I now can do work…

A call for submissions is going out for stories, poems, and art for Cold Hard Type’s third book: Backspaces. The theme is devoted to time travel. Each submission must tie in typewriters. Fiction and poetry, pending acceptance, must be produced on typewriters for final print. See this link for further details: Backspaces  Image not related…

If you don’t have the time to write a novel in November but have a hankering to do some creative writing, you might like this prompt I used for American Lit. My students are reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, just in time to cheer them up for Thanksgiving. The novel tells a post-nuclear holocaust story…

For Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Link to article on Victor Riesal: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-labor-journalist-blinded-by-union-thugs

* “Digital divide” no longer signifies that underprivileged students are at a disadvantage for not having tech; these students are now at a disadvantage because their education relies too much on that tech–as opposed to having smaller class sizes, more face-to-face classes, more tutors and teachers with job security, etc.