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The Boy Turns Eight
The Boy is eight today. He looks ten, but he's eight. It's a fun age to watch, since it's still...
A last word on commencements
I thought I was done with commencements for about a year, when someone sent me a link to the address...
Men
Last week, IHE had a story about a conference dedicated to addressing the relatively low rate of college attendance by...
A recommendation and a reminder
Although it's only tangentially related to the topic of sustainability (and even that only if your mind runs in the...
Learning Not to Answer
I've had variations on this conversation several times recently. Professor: There's option A and option B, and I guess technically...
Dancing With Widow X
In my previous post I used a recalcitrant subject in an ethnography study, Widow X, as a symbol of all...
Not that I'm biased, but ...
Events like commencements tend to connect me to family members I haven't seen in a while. In this case, an...
Fun with Cognitive Dissonance
Both of these stories make sense on their own terms. But taken together, they neatly capture the basic dilemma in...