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Presidents’ Day: Wake Up to Woke
02.19.2023 __”If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that,” Roberto Clemente said, “you are wasting your time on this...
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Shaking the sorrow off your soul
Sorrow builds up on your soul over time. It is invisible and insidious because joy becomes clouded and, eventually, unattainable. In America, we glorify work and vilify rest. This, the sorrow of daily...
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American Dystopia: From Greensboro to Waco to Nashville
04.02.2023 __The Nashville Covenant School massacre, the 131st mass shooting in America this year, has rightly outraged most Americans. Cries across much of the political spectrum condemning the...
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We Are Each Other’s Other
04.09.2023 __Over 20 years ago a friend returned from London with a gift, a signed copy of the British edition of Edward Said’s memoir, Out of Place. Today, shelved among my other Said books, it has a...
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(Un)happy Fourth of July
For my entire life, the 4th of July has been a day of celebration. Even as a child, it was a holiday with fun food (not necessarily nutritious) and a general opportunity to play without a care in the...
View ArticleDecreasing freedoms
What are you most worried about for the future? I worry about the freedoms I am watching disappear. I worry that the patterns of discrimination will continue to grow until the USA is no longer a...
View ArticleSix Weeks Later
Six weeks ago today, I was preparing for knee surgery. After a long battle with a staph infection stemming from a failed hip replacement that also took one of my already-prosthetic knees with it, I...
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Monday of any given break period
It’s a weird feeling. When I start a semester, I’m exhausted by all the effort that goes into my chosen profession. I often say that the effort is akin to pushing a ship out of port by hand. It’s...
View ArticleDon’t Look in that Liminal Space… Really Don’t
In my last post, I mentioned the weirdness of a dead stop for the Thanksgiving break, like stopping an ocean liner. It’s hard and feels like I’m stuck in the middle of the ocean. I can’t do much...
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