Friday, November 12, 2010

Here is Your Lanyard

I have been remiss at my blogging. I know my thousands of readers are in withdrawal, not knowing what the Remler boys have been doing or what frocks I have whipped up by hand out of old bed sheets. But November is here, and while most folks associate the month with elections and Thanksgiving, I also associate it with advisement and pre-registration, Regents' test grading, and my students' frequent office visits due to their realizations, after failing three essays, that they're probably not going to pass English 101. I'll be back to the blog by December 1st, I'm sure. But until then, I hope you will enjoy this reading from my favorite poet, Billy Collins: