It’s Monday at 8:30 a.m. and I’m standing at the front of my first-year English Lit class; we’ve …
Audacity’s Edge
A little while ago, one of my running heroes, the one and only Smilin’ Southern Man Billy Simpson, …
Twenty Words for Freezing
It’s freezing outside; or at least I’m freezing outside. The calendar says that the sun is coming up …
Ride Like a Kid
Recently I got back to work a er lunch unbelievably dirty. My face was splattered with mud, my arms …
What’s On Your Mind?
Facebook, Suffering, and Letting Go Facebook offers a rich well of examples regarding the ways we …
“Grateful for the weeds”: or, dropping out of a PhD program as pedagogical tool
Working on a PhD is a soul-sucking, utterly disempowering process. At least for me it was. From …