- A Fordham Cap
- You just never know: Rhetoric in sending a sympathy card
- Getting to Normal
- Biking — A Sidebar
- Professor Wingard’s Conversion from Loyalty to Secession
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A Fordham Cap
Alas, I no longer have the Fordham U. ballcap I bought about 25 years ago. I do have a story about it though. Teaching at Moravian College, I would sometimes use spring break to get a day in the city. Sometimes I’d have an agenda, but mostly I just wanted to feel the vibe on…
You just never know: Rhetoric in sending a sympathy card
There was this student — I’ll call her Sadie — in one of my classes at Moravian College in the mid-90s. She was one of those people whose body language in the first week of the semester said clearly, “I don’t want to be here.” I noticed but did not call her out. After a…
Getting to Normal
I am writing this essay more than a decade after I made a camping/biking trip to the Midwest. On that trip, as with similar excursions in 2009 and 2011, I brought my (now ancient) Flip camera with me and captured some video. (The camera was hand-held, hence the shakiness of many of the shots linked…
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