I was in my car, pulling into the driveway after picking up some takeout. The
radio was tuned to NPR, but I wasn’t paying that close of attention. I was
exhausted after
“To the naked eye, I may seem normal just like another student or individual;
however, behind the mask, I am constantly reminded that I am different from
everybody else. I am not sure
I am stuck with the following story — not only with it, but by it. My decision
to articulate it is always marked by haltings and hesitations, whether I’m
inscribing it here or
When I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in English, I spent quite a
few hours in the TA office, an expansive room in the basement of the English
building,
“‘I hate it when you talk like this . . .’
‘I merely observe that this is a quantum Universe and, as such, what happens is
neither random nor determined.There are potentialities and any third
The ability or inability of a group or culture to progress is in direct
relationship to the proliferation of aphorism within it. General statements of
fact and abbreviations of great wisdom are misleading
I may have created a racist. I am an adjunct instructor at a large, public
university in a rural area of the country. Given the media attention surrounding
the death of Margaret Mary
Intimacy lacks a satisfying definition. It is, according to the New American
Oxford Dictionary, “a close familiarity of friendship; a private atmosphere; or
an intimate act (especially sex).” To be intimate with someone
The following is a letter to my first- and second-year music theory and aural
skills students at The University of Colorado–Boulder. This is my second
semester at CU, and the music students
Teachers don’t teach; instructors don’t really instruct. The lecture-based
course fell out of favor years ago, and we know today to bringfront and center
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note the real need for bravery in higher education, paying special attention to
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook.On
my luckier days, I am gifted a few invisible moments at pick-up time before my
son or one of his
From all the jails the Boys and Girls
Ecstatically leap—
Beloved only Afternoon
That Prison doesn’t keep
They storm the Earth and stun the Air,
A Mob of solid Bliss—
Alas—that
“Certainly anybody who has taught at the postsecondary level has had students
who regard school as an inconvenience and lead soap-opera lives, but fortunately
those students are not the norm. However, for Mr.