Utterly Human: In Defense of the Imperfect, the Embodied, and the Creaturely · No. 13

On the bus, my neighbors don’t notice me crying, distracted by the blue of their screens flickering like summer’s end.

or, What I Learned from Collaborative Writing

In which I go deep on a word that doesn’t matter to me nearly as much as the integrity of learning and thinking does.

Beaches and Mullein and Political Presumptions

Or, why buying seeds is a great example of the action in non-action

Sitting and watching, it was clear to me that the process was a lot less efficient than just sitting down and talking face-to-face, which is why shuttle diplomacy is usually reserved for negotiations ...

How the University of Michigan Interim President Misrepresented Robert Frost and Why that Matters

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Separation Sometimes I feel like fatherhood is a matter of standing still, holding the crack of light open, listening for the rumpled sigh of a child back in bed, the terror leaking in through loos…

or, My Daughter is the Coolest 11 yr Old I Know.

by noticing that it's still beautiful.

What's the word for the decision to throw yourself recklessly off the cliff, to disappear into life?

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In all these instances, we can see the University Administration strategically increasing workloads for instructors and reducing support for graduate and undergraduate students, worsening working and learning conditions.

I love a good march, but I love solidarity more.

and a new poem about bugs and dinosaurs and you & me.

Beyond the old barn a small stream ran all those winter days, and beyond the stream almost nothing grew except weeds, poke grass, burdock, scatterings

A bit of confluence - funny how that happens when we get mornings off . . .