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Shannon Murray
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I teach Shakespeare and children’s lit on the beautiful Prince Edward Island — and I write about teaching for hope in higher ed.
This sent me back to all my favorite cakewrecks.com pics:
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Great episode! Listened while biking here, near the site of the Yankee Gale disaster off Prince Edward Island, appropriately. (I wonder if there’s an episode in that.)
August 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Loved the Pryce: that ending! I’ll add Merchant 1936 to the mix. It got mixed reviews, but I loved the female Shylock and the background of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street.
July 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
And The PEI spud museum
May 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Adding Oxford, NS
May 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yes there are threats and frustrations and heartaches in higher ed teaching: but then there is a perfect convocation day and parents and smiles and really good colleagues who always show up for their students.
May 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Bookmark is ours in Charlottetown PEI. I went this morning to enjoy the crowds of book browsers and to pick up Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty.”
Also got more beautiful ink that I don’t really need… they stock great pens, journals, and inks and even run a pen club!
April 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
For a really good brief explainer of the mess we Canadians find ourselves in — and the fake numbers that are getting thrown at us — check out the More or Less podcast with @timharford.ft.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I’m going into my second-last class on Milton’s Paradise Lost, ridiculously pleased with my redesigned certificates of achievement, suitable for framing, because seriously, it is a massive poem and attn. must be paid. (The header honours my own teacher, Jim Forrest, who always said that about PL.)
March 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My latest purchase in my “reading to
keep me sane but still engaged”
list. Loved his “Humankind: A Hopeful History,” and before that, Jamil Zaki’s “Hope for Cynics” and Rebecca Solnit’s “A Paradise Built in Hell.” Yes, folks, we are worth saving.
March 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
To mark Freedom to Read Week’s Digital Day of Action, why not share one of your favorite banned or challenged books? #FreedomToRead. Here’s mine:
February 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
That is such a hopeful thing to do. Yes to seeds and dirt. In the still frozen north, we are weeks away from anything but dreaming of planting — but a little indoor herb garden to run my hands through helps.
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
By coincidence, I was just reading about her this morning in Rutger Bregman’ s very hopeful Humankind: a Hopeful History.
February 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My aspirational book pile for our annual escape to the woods in PEI with no wifi. (Can she go three days without checking news and Bluesky?)
February 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Canadian here. This is what we see:
February 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just some blue sky to say thanks to Bluesky today. It’s good to be here.
January 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
December 28, 2024 at 5:43 PM
This is one I teach in a capstone class: love it, though it might be too specific to the liberal arts for your purposes: Martha Nussbaum’s Not For Profit.
December 27, 2024 at 9:23 PM
This is the one recommended to me as neither all for or all against, but I haven’t read it yet.
December 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM