Welcome to "It's All Academic," a website initially supporting the book pictured to the right. Since then, it has moved past observations about higher education. In 2025, I find inspiration in three general areas, listed below. More than a thousand blogs and poems can be found through the menu to the left.

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My Imaginary Therapy Sessions

Session Eleven: Closing Time (The sessions end with a bit of fireworks)

Session Ten: Origin Story (Going back to grad school days)

Session Nine: That Uncertain Smile (Yes, there are lots of work memories that make me smile)

Session Eight: Not Networking (On the network of colleagues made outside of one's institution)

Full list of Therapy Sessions

Orange Is The New Ick (Poems on current affairs)

Fold (Poem on the church shooting in Minneapolis . . . sort of)

Codependence Day (Poem on irony of Independence Day 2025)

Chanticleer (Poem revising Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale)

The Paupers' Grave (Poem on opportunities lost)

Narcissus Drowning (Poem on a collective narcissistic disorder)

Full list of Orange Is The New Ick posts

Close To Home (Recent poems of a more personal level)

Hiding In The Peanut Butter (Quick poem appreciating a dog's view of life)

Life's A Screen (Poem on lack of privacy)

Outside Sherwood Forest (Poem on mysterious heroes)

Use-By Date (Poem on human "freshness" dates) 

Pulling Dandelions (Poem on meaning of life)

 About David Fleming

I am a retired Provost/Chief Academic Officer, now full-time hack writer.