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Vietnam, Part 3
My cohort in the Miami MFA was a bit older and more diverse than others. We had among us a...
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Vietnam, Part 2
I’ve always been interested in how we know where to go before we know why. It felt accidental some years...
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Shakespeare's 7 Ages of the College Teacher
1. Cluelessness2. Terror3. Hope4. Competence5. Hubris6. Comeuppance7. Sabbatical Note: Adjuncts should omit Age 7 and carry on with Age 6...
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Vietnam, Part 1
It was a fair start, for an ironical life, to be born American in Saigon, Vietnam, on Ho Chi Minh’s...
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Is There a Grant to Study This?
A student pouted at me in conference today and said she doesn’t care about writing or reading well. She wants...
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Churm House, Part 2
My wife makes more money as an internationalization coordinator than I have ever made, even as a corporate writer. That’s...
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The Famous Are Different From You and Me
Multiply 15 minutes of fame by 6 billion people, and you’re bound to run across someone famous sometime. Some encounters...
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Sweet Baby Lettuces, People
Your entries to the “One True Sentence” contest prove you’ve seen and heard some things. No wonder you have that...