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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 6h

There Is Something Wonderful About College Students Writing 3rd-Grade Informative Essays (As If They're 3rd Graders).

I made it to campus by 7:15. The I-95 Gods looked out for me, so there was plenty of time to print materials for class. We will be hosting t...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, CT's Super Moon was Super Cloud-Covered, But I Felt Her Energy Nonetheless (I Am Mr. Moonbeam, After All)

Karal sat at my side grading all day. Well, and planning. Oh, and interviewing. I did have one on-campus student conference...a math major l...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 2d

Reflecting on an Old Tale That I Never Thought I'd Ever Reflect Upon. I Blame It on Age & Having a Two Year Old in the House This Summer

I've been thinking about my teaching days in Kentucky, experiences in all my own learning, and work where I am now in relation to a movie th...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 3d

Throwing Back to 2009. The First Publication (While in Doctoral Classes) When I Started Thinking about Dis/ability Representation in YA Texts

This evening, after around 6 hours of meetings, I also bring together my graduate English course on Young Adult Literature, where the evenin...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 4d

Well, We're Back to Daylight Savings Time, Which Means Brighter Mornings and Much Earlier Nights. It Remains Something.

I was reading last week that it will be a while before we have a 6 p.m. sunset, which opposes the 10 p.m. sunsets of summer. Although I don'...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 5d

Like the Leaves on a Fallen Branch, So Our The Days of Our Lives (& Look At How They Match the Hulk)

I admit it. I am the fallen branch. The Vicki Soto 5K did the bones I own in: ooh, my ankles. Ouch, my hips. Is that the Sciatica acting up?...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 6d

I've Been in My Current Location for Over 11 Years and I Attest the Halloween Game Has Only Grown for Residents on My Street.

250 books. 275 Halloween bubbles. 400 pieces of candy. 150 glow-in-the-dark ghost figurines. My house was tapped and me? I am wiped out. Wh...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 7d

And Then There Is a Day with Kids and Purpose, Joy, Hope, Creativity, and Possibility Gets Restored.

I left my house at 6:45 a.m., stopped home at 3 p.m. for Karal, then settled home again at 8 p.m. It began working with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gr...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 8d

Academic Job Alert: TESOL, Bilingual, World Language Assistant/Associate Professor: Please share widely. Would love to honor a stellar retiree with the next generation of excellence at Fairfield University.

Assistant or Associate Professor, TESOL, World Language, Bilingual Education

Job Description: The School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) of Fairfield University announces a senior tenure-track position as an advanced Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in TESO...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 8d

Every Once in a While a Throwback Comes Your Way & You Can Smell Old Books, a House in Hamilton, a Camp, and Childhood Treasures

I've written before about Miss Twiggly's Tree , but I know there were several other books in little cubby's of my grandmother's home and cam...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 9d

They're Called Black & Whites in Connecticut (Even When Orange & Brown), Half-Moon in Syracuse, and Cow Cookies in Kentucky

Truth is, every fall I get the craving to treat my graduate students with Half-Moons, although my local baker calls them Back & Whites (even...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 10d

I Love Bringing My Spiritual Ordainment to Other Practices Beyond Marriage. I've Become Quite the Chaplain for Aviary Needs, Too

I wasn't home two minutes before I got another text from Pam that a bird died on her patio. They run into her window and plop to the ground....

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 11d

Entering Monday Wishing More Days Could Be Sunday. We All Need More Time In Our Lives for Us

Okay, I did work all day Sunday, but I also had time to hike, to eat dinner with friends, and to catch up with my cousin Mark. We talked abo...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 12d

Final Day of #WriteOut '25 - Marching on with Marching Bands Providing the Final Rhythm for this Year's Celebrations. Now for a Day of Rest.

Marching On Day 15, #WriteOut ’25 b.r.crandall I heard the drums around four, recognizing cadences of my adolescence when my sister mar...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 13d

Day 14, #WriteOut '25, In Between These Ears. A Rocky Start for a Saturday Wondering About the Way We Landscape Our Worlds

I took advantage of a Friday with no meetings to catch up on projects, to walk the dog, to care for the yard in pre-hibernal preparation for...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 14d

I Have Nothing to Say About the Cosmos, But the Cosmos Has the Last Say - #WriteOut '25, Day 13...Coincidences of What's Still in Bloom

If you teach an 8 a.m. in souther Connecticut, you need to depart at 6:30 a.m. to make it in time....even if it is only 11 miles...that is t...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 15d

Eye Don't Know, Day 12, #WriteOut '25. Off to Campus for a Very Long Day (Thankful, Always, to Writing Challenges to Keep Me Alive)

We're hanging in there, keeping up with the WriteOut challenge, working through all that needs to be accomplished on the work front, and wi...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 16d

Day 11, #WriteOut '25: Walking with Robert. Also Navigating Age in a Right Shoulder and Now Ready For Retirement (Whaaaaaa! Ten More Years)

I think it is the rotator's cuff. Never had an issue in my baseball/football/volleyball years of throwing/hitting things around, but now I'm...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 17d

Day 10 - #WriteOut ... Didn't Have a Lot of Time to Appreciate the Outdoors But Did Catch a Bird or Two on My Roof (Perhaps they were searching for poetry, too)

Monday was a delicious day, not only because I got to hear Shonda Rhimes speak, (no scandal here), but because I'm part of a larger literary...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 18d

Sneezing on a Monday, But Listening to the Chimes of the Day. Here We Go...Day 9, #WriteOut '25. I Need Rest From a Jam-Packed Weekend

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 19d

Entering Day 8 of #WriteOut '25 & Celebrating I've Yet to Be Stung. Also, Proud to Have Made Another StoryFest Memorable for Teachers and Students

I believe I might need some time to process the wonder of the past two days, driving around Southern Connecticut with author Derrick Barnes ...

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Bryan Ripley Crandall @brcrandall.bsky.social · 20d

I Had To Breathe In & Out Yesterday Just to Make It Through All There Was on the Agenda, But I Did Get to #WriteOut '25, Day 7. The Skies Saved Me cultivatedcrandall.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-ha...