tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post6877326309608673149..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: Ten yearsFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-60222883630046518442015-06-02T23:18:27.900-04:002015-06-02T23:18:27.900-04:00Happy Blogiversary! I love reading blogs, and miss...Happy Blogiversary! I love reading blogs, and miss those lovely people who've moved on to another form of social interaction. Please keep writing, musing and thinking about writing, thinking and remembering.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-29158454070397945592015-06-01T05:13:03.778-04:002015-06-01T05:13:03.778-04:00Even though the professional travails of academia ...Even though the professional travails of academia are no longer relevant to me, I'm glad you're still blogging! I learn a great deal about teaching and academic life from you and your commenters. Now that blogging is no longer remotely cool (or, I assume, professionally controversial), there should be no pressure on anyone to blog at any pace other than that of their own choosing. Besides, it's a great way to knead the occasional whim and see if it works as a fully baked thought.Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-57942020845630318142015-05-29T21:40:48.549-04:002015-05-29T21:40:48.549-04:00Thanks, all!
Anon: MAGGIE MAY! I think of her fr...Thanks, all! <br /><br />Anon: MAGGIE MAY! I think of her from time to time, along with a bunch of other long-gone bloggers, like Ancrene Wiseass and the blogger-most-recently-known-as-Kora. That's another kind of nostalgia: having no damn clue who those people I once felt very connected to, but whom I never knew under their real names, have gone to. And some like Kora departed under alarming circumstances. I hope they're all out there and are well, somewhere.<br /><br />Withy:<br /><br />No, it doesn't; I have to say that I'm not particularly interested in melancholy, medically or otherwise! (And I know that "nostalgia" is an anachronistic term for the period, but it's the most useful one for my purposes right now.) I'm interested in what I guess you'd call collective nostalgia, or the sense of a shared past that is, for some reason, inaccessible or irrecoverable (in the case of my book, because it's the WAY WAY LONG AGO past, not just one's parents' or grandparents' rose-colored memories).Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-12913842754679350032015-05-29T17:42:46.732-04:002015-05-29T17:42:46.732-04:00Glad you'll still be around. Us old-timers got...Glad you'll still be around. Us old-timers gotta stick together...Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-44407022959953696312015-05-29T11:35:26.998-04:002015-05-29T11:35:26.998-04:00Happy you're still blogging! (After all these ...Happy you're still blogging! (After all these years ...)<br /><br />Professionally, does the interest in nostalgia come out of an interest in melancholy? And are the Snows of Yesteryear prominent in your book?Withywindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465319711207992232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-37807539247745394802015-05-28T23:19:11.955-04:002015-05-28T23:19:11.955-04:00All that professional socialization graduate schoo...All that professional socialization graduate schools don't provide I got from reading blogs like yours and Dr. Crazy's and NewKid and ProfGrrrl and Maggie May and... I can't say how grateful I am for all of you, and I'm really very glad you will still be blogging.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-74650324835653220572015-05-28T18:30:46.441-04:002015-05-28T18:30:46.441-04:00I'm so glad you're still here!I'm so glad you're still here!Megannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-11094320058265846472015-05-28T11:42:34.458-04:002015-05-28T11:42:34.458-04:00I am very pro nostalgia, and spend a decent amount...I am very pro nostalgia, and spend a decent amount of time reflecting on how things that occurred decades ago have influenced things that occur today. It's fun to think about that kind of stuff. It's not that I wish I was back then instead of here today, but that it is valuable to me to see how yesterday's me still exists as a part of today's me. Comradde PhysioProffenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-48351409640707714942015-05-28T11:02:41.119-04:002015-05-28T11:02:41.119-04:00Take it from one who is sixty that the interest in...Take it from one who is sixty that the interest in figuring out what holds a career together is not unique - particularly when your career is non-standard, as mine has been. <br />Happy blog-birthday!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-2065930996470473422015-05-28T10:11:15.964-04:002015-05-28T10:11:15.964-04:00It's hard to be pro- or anti-nostalgia. Nosta...It's hard to be pro- or anti-nostalgia. Nostalgia exists whether we like it or not. I like your understanding of it as appreciation for a loss even as we appreciate even more the progress we've made.<br /><br />Keep on blogging! (Isn't it funny how blogging is now the "long-form journalism" of the social media world? Am I nostalgic for 2002 when they were the next newest thing? Maybe.) I will be posting some links to some new blogs of interest to our readers in the next few weeks.<br /><br /><br /><br />Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.com