I posted my first blog post in 2006 on the first site domain I had ever purchased. I chose the name “ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore” for two reasons: (a) it was the first on a list of rules that I gave to my students every semester and, (b) it seemed like an unwieldly and clunky-enough site name that no one would ever try to buy it.

I was wrong about that second part. After almost 15 years of blogging on that site, the domain name was bought out from under me in 2021. I did my level best to try to recover it (even buy it back!), but it was a heavily-trafficked site at that point and I had to eventually come to terms with the fact that this particular digital garden of ideas, that I had tended and nurtured for so long, and which I loved, now belonged to someone else.

It’s taken some time to move that content to this site, but the full archive is here now: every post from 2006 to 2021, with its original publication date, its comments, and its images. Links between old posts now point to their new addresses here. A few links still lead to posts that no longer exist, and I’m still tidying up some loose ends.

You can search the archive, browse it by year, or explore it by topic using the tag cloud below.