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.

If you like anything here, feel free to leave a comment at the contact page.

Archivist Fleming (Observations resulting from volunteer transcriptions of the National Archives)

Mr. [Redacted] (Poem about sloppy redactions)

The Things We Should Bury (Envisioning my wife in a Marina Oswald situation)

Groundhog's Day Underwater (Peculiarity with International Date Line in Archives)

Citizen Archivist Fleming (On becoming a transcriptionist with the National Archives)

Orange Is The New Ick (Poems on current affairs)

The Paupers' Grave (Poem on opportunities lost)

Narcissus Drowning (Poem on a collective narcissistic disorder)

The Plan (Villanelle on current affairs)

Nothing From Nothing (Poem on a world of no distinction)

The Veil (Poem on blind fidelity)

Metempsychosis (Poem on reincarnation)

Captain Footnote (On dying relevant historical superheroes)

2025 (Fooled Again) (Violence in New Orleans kicking off 2025)

Close To Home (Poems of a more personal level)

Vehicular Manslaughter (Poem on the relentless attack of trucks)

Identity Parade (Poem on being unfairly associated with online comment)

The Lame Duck & The Warm Corpse (Poem: 'Nuff said)

A Slap In The Face (When authority figures get away with bad decisions)

A Broken Arm (Old poem resurrected with Trump's elimination of aviation safety advisory board members)

Positioning (Spam artists and self-publishers)

 About David Fleming

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