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So Tired…So Very Tired

Posted on June 16, 2015 by evamccollaum

I have had a great couple of days, but they haven’t been easy.  Exciting?  Yes.  Nervous?  Yes.  A bit embarrassing?  Yes.  I’ll start with the shame. I have been involved with planning a big event recently–A BOOKISH AFFAIR.  It is … Continue reading →

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Reading the World

Posted on June 4, 2015 by evamccollaum

Next weekend, 13 June 2015, there is A BOOKISH AFFAIR planned to take place at the Roswell Public Library.  It’s an event to celebrate reading and writing in Roswell.  I love reading and writing in Roswell.  It’s just some of … Continue reading →

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Working Thesis Part TWO

Posted on February 17, 2015 by evamccollaum

Reading a great work of fiction is a rare privilege, and it is getting rarer all the time.  It is beginning a conversation with a great mind that has contemplated the human condition in a creative and entertaining way–an artistic … Continue reading →

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Working Thesis

Posted on February 16, 2015 by evamccollaum

I have been teaching for thirty years.  It is a strange thing to assert–thirty years.  In that time I have discovered one reality of all great things. What works takes work! People are always looking for the easy way to … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Resolutions For You

Posted on December 31, 2014 by evamccollaum

We all have come face to face with what John Oliver calls “the worst” holiday–New Year’s Eve.  If you haven’t seen John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, you should.  I hate to jump on a bandwagon, mostly because I’m afraid I’ll … Continue reading →

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For Dean, John, and Brian

Posted on December 22, 2014 by evamccollaum

I’ve been trying to figure out the last time we were all together for Christmas. Is it possible it was 1983? It seems so strange to me that such a thing could be true. Christmas has always seemed like a … Continue reading →

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Annotating “The Dead”

Posted on July 4, 2014 by evamccollaum

Here is my second annotation from that most illustrious of story collections Dubliners.  I love this story more every time I read it. Joyce, James.  “The Dead.”  Dubliners.  Ed. Brenda Maddox.  New York:  Bantam, 1990.  Print. “The Dead,” the last … Continue reading →

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Annotating “Araby”

Posted on July 1, 2014 by evamccollaum

I am currently teaching an on-line course that includes reading James Joyce’s Dubliners.  As part of that work, I want to offer here an examination of Joyce’s writing that I think will be instructive for both my students and for me. … Continue reading →

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Food in Roswell: A Tribute to Jenny Currier (Foody)

Posted on June 12, 2014 by evamccollaum

So…my last entry has far too much self pity and angst in it.  I appreciate all the uncommonly kind comments former and current students sent.  God bless you all.  One of these people is (of course) Jenny Currier, who got … Continue reading →

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Writers Write

Posted on May 28, 2014 by evamccollaum

It has been too long since I posted anything to this blog.  It is not because I have not had anything to discuss.  I have.  I have.  I just haven’t had a MOMENT to discuss, at least in a circumspect … Continue reading →

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