Academic life has a lot of hard endings and beginnings. Finite markers. Here is where one thing ends and another begins. There’s something gratifying in that because you are given a definitive…
A few nights ago I heard sirens and I was struck by the strangeness of it. Mostly I was struck by the strangeness of it being strange. We live far away from…
In the summer of 2012 I got to spend a few weeks in Morocco as part of my graduate program. I wrote some posts about that. I made a short video on…
I’m still vomiting feelings all over your internet, but I get to do that because I have a blog. That’s one of the reasons I have blogs. I also have comment sections,…
If you are hurting, I would like you to be my valentine. Please be my valentine, friend or stranger. If you are hurting, I choose you. I know it’s a Hallmark holiday…