Truth or Fiction
“On the day I was born, the trait which received the most attention was not my height or weight or how loud or long I cried or my inability to stop squirming. The trait that, unknown to me at the time, was to define my life was not my simple personhood. This was stolen at birth. […]
E-Mail to Students
Hope you are holding up okay in these tumultuous times. Below are some thoughts from myself.In 1963, the famed African-American author James Baldwin wrote “The Fire Next Time.” Every time there is a terrible racial “incident,” people have wondered if a fire was being lit which would defy extinguishment, that would not run its course until […]
Brave New World — or Not?
My reading list can be random – something, somewhere catches my eye. When “The Glass House” by Emily St. John Mandel was billed as having a Ponzi scheme guy as the lead character, I was in. It was a quite interesting and creative novel, with the Ponzi aspect only dominating quietly, but powerfully. Naturally I […]