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Conference Adventures at Disney Part 3 of 3

I went back to the bar and celebrated my good fortune with wings and a mojito for a late dinner. “A mojito?” Don asked. “That’s what I like about you. You’re unpredictable.” I tipped him $5. After dinner I took another back to my room, along with a slice of key lime pie. Feeling generous,ContinueContinue reading “Conference Adventures at Disney Part 3 of 3”

Conference adventures at Disney Part 2 of 3

Sean encouraged all of us to take extra sandwiches back to our rooms, which had refrigerators, and so I took two.  At 12:30, my business in Orlando concluded, I went to the front desk of the hotel to extend my stay. “I’m sorry, but we have other guests with reservations,” the clerk informed me. IContinueContinue reading “Conference adventures at Disney Part 2 of 3”

Conference adventures at Disney Part 1 of 3

First word that I was heading into a hurricane came Thursday morning as I waited on my flight at Michigan’s Capital Region International Airport. “Don’t miss it!” the email exhorted. “Tomorrow’s conference will be held as scheduled in Disney Springs.” They assured us that all was well. I’d heard about a tropical storm developing onContinueContinue reading “Conference adventures at Disney Part 1 of 3”

Across the Pond 8: Miss Bertha Better Than You at the Bodlein Library at Oxford

Katherine Philips has a letter in the archives of the Bodlein library of Oxford College. My modern British women’s literature class went to the town of Oxford one week and I realized I would be in very close proximity to an original document of Philips’s. I hadn’t seen her handwriting in person yet, something sheContinueContinue reading “Across the Pond 8: Miss Bertha Better Than You at the Bodlein Library at Oxford”