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December 2014

December 31, 2014
“Get a picture of yourself ten years from now in your mind,” I said to...
December 12, 2014
Final exams begin next week, so I'm getting ready for the next round of reading...
December 10, 2014
I recently finished re-reading Stephanie Saldana’s 2010 book The Bread of Angels, a book that...
December 03, 2014
I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to observe a colleague in class,...

November 2014

November 30, 2014
Today is Saint Andrew's Sunday (which happens to fall this year on the actual Saint...
November 26, 2014
I spent two hours of seminar last Friday with twelve honors freshmen enjoying the wonders...
November 21, 2014
I begin with a confession. As recently as a week ago in a Facebook posting...
November 19, 2014
I recently submitted two grant proposals related to my sabbatical that will begin next July....
November 17, 2014
“There is a famous anecdote about an out-of-town tryout of the original production of A...
November 12, 2014
We are all going to die! That's just so awful. I didn't agree to this....

October 2014

October 29, 2014
In one of my interdisciplinary classes we are in the transition between Ancient Greece and...
October 24, 2014
If it’s Friday, it’s time to think once again about interactions between various constituencies in...
October 22, 2014
A bit over a year after moving into our beautiful new humanities building, there is...
October 15, 2014
I have recently been thinking a lot about faculty-administration relations, particularly about the various reasons...
October 01, 2014
Every fall I get to spend several weeks with a bunch of freshmen in the...

September 2014

September 26, 2014
Everyone has heard the old adage, attributed to Oscar Wilde, that “When you ASSUME, you...
September 24, 2014
Several years ago, as my mother-in-law was steadily descending into the hell of Alzheimer’s, an...
September 12, 2014
I have a good friend and colleague in the philosophy department whose twin daughters have...
September 10, 2014
During the first weeks of the semester I often think about my first weeks as...
September 08, 2014
I was angry with my father for a lot of reasons over the years, some...
September 04, 2014
This coming Sunday my on-and-off opportunities to play the organ at the Episcopal church Jeanne...

August 2014

August 27, 2014
Last July, in the middle of an interminable stretch of high-90s heat (very unusual for...
August 20, 2014
Last Sunday, Jeanne and I stumbled across Oliver Stone's 1995 movie "Nixon" as we were...
August 18, 2014
Classes begin soon and I am coming slowly to the conclusion that my summer reading...
August 06, 2014
Last Sunday's gospel focused on one of Jesus' signature miracles--the feeding of the five thousand....

July 2014

July 30, 2014
My sons learned early on that although I was generally a laid back and flexible...
July 27, 2014
Picture the favorite vehicle that you have ever owned. Did it look like this? Or...
July 25, 2014
In a world of partial color blindness, I have to make do with the colors...
July 23, 2014
To what extent can clear thinking and logical analysis help untangle the complexities of trying...
July 18, 2014
Unlike many academics, I greatly enjoy commencement exercises. After experiencing three of my own (BA,...
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