Bryan Ripley Crandall
@brcrandall.bsky.social
Nerd. Thinker. Maybe a writer. Philosopher? I don't know. Teacher, sometimes. Student always. Nerd suffices. Yep, Nerd. Professor of Literacy (Connecticut Writing Project~Fairfield)
Good Company is the Best Way to Start a New Week. Sporadic, Collegiate Lunches for the Rescue.
Good Company is the Best Way to Start a New Week. Sporadic, Collegiate Lunches for the Rescue.
I missed Dr. Eileen O'Shea's Wall Award lecture last week, where she discussed her research on palliative care with children who have cancer...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Good Company is the Best Way to Start a New Week. Sporadic, Collegiate Lunches for the Rescue.
1st Birthday Parties Mean Delicious Cake. Welcome to the Age of Walking and Bringing Cuteness Wherever You Go, Ms. Maddie
1st Birthday Parties Mean Delicious Cake. Welcome to the Age of Walking and Bringing Cuteness Wherever You Go, Ms. Maddie
Crazy how fast the clock moves, especially when the next generation is brought to the forefront. It seems Maddie was just born and last nigh...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
1st Birthday Parties Mean Delicious Cake. Welcome to the Age of Walking and Bringing Cuteness Wherever You Go, Ms. Maddie
With Total Exhaustion Hitting at 5 p.m. Last Night, I Revved Up the Engines and Decided to Grill for the Week
With Total Exhaustion Hitting at 5 p.m. Last Night, I Revved Up the Engines and Decided to Grill for the Week
There really was no excuse to sit still, which is why I think I wanted to sit still. Leo and I attended the Senior Day volleyball game with ...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
With Total Exhaustion Hitting at 5 p.m. Last Night, I Revved Up the Engines and Decided to Grill for the Week
"I Knew I Was in the Right Place on the 1st Day of Class When We Were Greeted with Tangerines and a Bottle of Bubbles."
"I Knew I Was in the Right Place on the 1st Day of Class When We Were Greeted with Tangerines and a Bottle of Bubbles."
Yesterday was interesting location to stop, pause, reflect, and move on, as the day began with an interview on New Haven Radio by the Readma...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"I Knew I Was in the Right Place on the 1st Day of Class When We Were Greeted with Tangerines and a Bottle of Bubbles."
There Is Something Wonderful About College Students Writing 3rd-Grade Informative Essays (As If They're 3rd Graders).
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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November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
There Is Something Wonderful About College Students Writing 3rd-Grade Informative Essays (As If They're 3rd Graders).
Unfortunately, CT's Super Moon was Super Cloud-Covered, But I Felt Her Energy Nonetheless (I Am Mr. Moonbeam, After All)
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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November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Unfortunately, CT's Super Moon was Super Cloud-Covered, But I Felt Her Energy Nonetheless (I Am Mr. Moonbeam, After All)
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
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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November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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
Throwing Back to 2009. The First Publication (While in Doctoral Classes) When I Started Thinking about Dis/ability Representation in YA Texts
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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November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Throwing Back to 2009. The First Publication (While in Doctoral Classes) When I Started Thinking about Dis/ability Representation in YA Texts
Well, We're Back to Daylight Savings Time, Which Means Brighter Mornings and Much Earlier Nights. It Remains Something.
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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November 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Well, We're Back to Daylight Savings Time, Which Means Brighter Mornings and Much Earlier Nights. It Remains Something.
Like the Leaves on a Fallen Branch, So Our The Days of Our Lives (& Look At How They Match the Hulk)
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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November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Like the Leaves on a Fallen Branch, So Our The Days of Our Lives (& Look At How They Match the Hulk)
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.
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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November 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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.
And Then There Is a Day with Kids and Purpose, Joy, Hope, Creativity, and Possibility Gets Restored.
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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October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And Then There Is a Day with Kids and Purpose, Joy, Hope, Creativity, and Possibility Gets Restored.
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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October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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.
Every Once in a While a Throwback Comes Your Way & You Can Smell Old Books, a House in Hamilton, a Camp, and Childhood Treasures
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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October 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Every Once in a While a Throwback Comes Your Way & You Can Smell Old Books, a House in Hamilton, a Camp, and Childhood Treasures
They're Called Black & Whites in Connecticut (Even When Orange & Brown), Half-Moon in Syracuse, and Cow Cookies in Kentucky
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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October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
They're Called Black & Whites in Connecticut (Even When Orange & Brown), Half-Moon in Syracuse, and Cow Cookies in Kentucky
I Love Bringing My Spiritual Ordainment to Other Practices Beyond Marriage. I've Become Quite the Chaplain for Aviary Needs, Too
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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October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I Love Bringing My Spiritual Ordainment to Other Practices Beyond Marriage. I've Become Quite the Chaplain for Aviary Needs, Too
Entering Monday Wishing More Days Could Be Sunday. We All Need More Time In Our Lives for Us
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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October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Entering Monday Wishing More Days Could Be Sunday. We All Need More Time In Our Lives for Us
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.
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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October 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
Day 14, #WriteOut '25, In Between These Ears. A Rocky Start for a Saturday Wondering About the Way We Landscape Our Worlds
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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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Day 14, #WriteOut '25, In Between These Ears. A Rocky Start for a Saturday Wondering About the Way We Landscape Our Worlds
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
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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October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
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)
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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October 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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)
Day 11, #WriteOut '25: Walking with Robert. Also Navigating Age in a Right Shoulder and Now Ready For Retirement (Whaaaaaa! Ten More Years)
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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October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Day 11, #WriteOut '25: Walking with Robert. Also Navigating Age in a Right Shoulder and Now Ready For Retirement (Whaaaaaa! Ten More Years)
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)
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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October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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)
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
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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October 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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