For several summers I’ve taught a course on global literature organized around the topic of “Apocalypse.” But the course material isn’t what you might expect–no

  Driving home from a difficult meeting yesterday I found myself lingering on the Christian music station. Believe me, I know. It’s been a surprise

I have a thing for clothes. Let’s not call it an obsession, but okay…FINE. I love colors and shoes and 1950s clip earrings and vintage

A student walked into my office the other day and handed me a simple white envelope with my name on it. “May I open it

This is a story about learning the hard way how to be vulnerable. The summer before I started high school my church youth group took

At a certain moment in middle age you realize that the old nursery rhyme “Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin” has its

Omaha Beach, January 2017 This landscape reminds me of home. The winter sun, the relatively warm weather, the golden grasses catching the light, the high

Space is important to me. In particular, the space of my office is important to me, not only because it’s the place where I do

This one goes out to the beltless ones, the ones who forget their music at home, the ones who scrounge half-clean dress shirts from the