OK, so I took a bit of time off: to attend a beautiful wedding in the stunning Pacific Northwest, to visit my folks and take my kids to the beach for the first time, to play a couple of days of hooky with my lovely wife, to play in the inflatable pool with the kids this past weekend.

The blogger has been having a bit of an identity crisis here of late, as well. Because this blog is not anonymous, because I do blog about my work quite a bit, and because I've recently gotten some local googles of my name (from both the university and the area) and other local hits by readers I cannot identify, I've been a bit nervous about posting stuff too personal.

In fact, a blog in which I am linked by IHE for posts about teaching, in which I keep track of my writing productivity, in which I moderate a wacky faux reality-show-blog-post series, in which I post pictures of my children and personality test results, in which I work through personal and professional anxieties, and in which I post scores from the Buckskin Soccer League C-division (Last Friday, Rowdies 5, Cruisin' 5) would seem to be a bit schizophrenic, but that's life, eh, and this space is nothing if not a public performance of a fragmented human identity.

Whetehr it's appropriate to be so or not, I cannot say. Maybe I need a different space, to wipe the slate clean, or maybe I need to shape the posts here a lilttle more clearly. Your thoughts are appreciated. In the meantime, I'll be posting Teaching Carnival X, an update on summer writing, and Top Novelist results. And maybe a picture of the children.