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 linkedContinue reading “Getting to Normal”
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Biking — A Sidebar
Of course I’ve had a bicycle since I was 12 years old, but biking became a more serious avocation for me late in the 20th century. About that time, a college friend, Dennis Berry, with whom I’d reconnected and who was a serious cyclist, suggested the two of us ride across the U.S. when weContinue reading “Biking — A Sidebar”
Cycling the Pine Creek Trail: The Rhetoric of Travel
“Act-Suffer-Learn” My wife telling me “You’re too old to go off by yourself like that” was what clinched it for me. I had been discussing with her a plan to go on a four-day camping trip to remote north-central Pennsylvania, alone, and to bike the Pine Creek Trail, which runs about 63 miles from WellsboroContinue reading “Cycling the Pine Creek Trail: The Rhetoric of Travel”
Joel Wingard, aka “Rhetorman” for the purpose of this site.
I am a retired English professor. I have a Ph.D. in liteary studies, but for the greatest part of my career I directed writing programs, initially as a concentration within the English major at Moravian College (since 2022, Moravian University) then a writing-across-the curriculum program that I helped launch in 2001. In the course ofContinue reading “Joel Wingard, aka “Rhetorman” for the purpose of this site.”
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