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Continue reading →: Vanishing Notes in Goodnotes
My experiment using my iPad as my notebook has gone pretty well so far. If anything, I’m probably more convinced that it is the right solution for my use cases and preferences. Something, happened today though, that might change mi mind should it reoccur. This morning I was gearing up…
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Continue reading →: Gatekeeping in 2024
Immigration history is on my mind this summer. This fall I’m teaching a new course, The Historian’s Craft, in which I’ll endeavor to introduce second-year history majors to the skills and habits that the discipline requires. I’m using immigration history from 1882 to 1965 as the topic. So, one of…
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Continue reading →: A Forty-Year Retirement Experiment
This year 4.1 million Americans will turn 65, a “silver tsunami” of people reaching the traditional retirement age. They most likely began earning a paycheck in the 1970s in the wake of bell bottoms, side burns, the OPEC crisis, and the Watergate scandal. There were a handful of retirement systems…
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Continue reading →: My iPad Is My Notebook
Yesterday morning I was in my office and told my wife, Trisha, I needed to get my iPad from the living room. “Why?” she asked. “My iPad is my notebook,” I replied. My answer somewhat surprised me. For years I have been using an analog notebook to collect fleeting thoughts…
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Continue reading →: First Impressions: 2023 M3 MacBook Pro
I was due for a refresh of my work computer and requested a silver 14″ 2023 M3 MacBook Pro to replace my 13″ 2018 Intel MacBook Pro. I’ve been listening to podcasts and reading the reporting on Apple silicon since the M1 and have been eager to experience a machine…
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Continue reading →: C.S. Lewis on Practice
I was reviewing some notes and rediscovered a quote from C.S. Lewis on the value of practice in writing: What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write…so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a…
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Continue reading →: Advances in the Publishing Industry
Toward the end of April, when I was eyeball deep in grading and final exams, words began to fly on the internet about the publishing industry and making a living as an author. I noted it as something I wanted to revisit after the semester and moved on. It appears…
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Continue reading →: Introducing the Fuzzy Logic BlogI tend to overthink things. Creating a website and starting a blog is a classic example. I’ve been considering it for years. I’m not exaggerating. Years. A long list of concerns held me back. I worried about the annual fees and subscription costs of independent proprietorship. (Free options or social…
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Continue reading →: Spring 2024 Teaching
I have reported final grades for the semester and am more or less ready to close the book on my teaching for spring 2024. I taught three classes—an introductory survey of United States history after the Civil War (Hist 2302); an upper-division course on labor history (Hist 4336 Work, Wealth,…
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Continue reading →: Coretta Scott King on the “Right to Work” in 1976
It is always a unique delight to look at a document written by someone who had a profound impact on history. I experienced that joy this week while I was looking through a file of documents and was surprised to find a letter written by Coretta Scott King. In April…
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