Month: December 2012

On Friday, when I wrote my last post, I wasn’t fully aware of what had happened at my nephew’s elementary school.  I didn’t know that the tiny community of Sandy Hook in bucolic Newtown, Connecticut, a  community that my brother and his family had settled in because of the great schools and the peaceful sense […]

This morning, I woke up and did what I always do.  I got ready for the day, packed my son’s lunch, and checked facebook.  But, what I saw on facebook was a tweet from my brother that the schools in his suburban town of Sandy Hook, Connecticut were on lockdown.  A few minutes later, I […]

…Some Other Beginning’s End” — Dan Wilson, “Closing Time” It is (almost) officially the end of my first semester as an assistant professor.  I’ve been thinking about this post for almost a week, trying to perfect it in my mind before the words could flow through my fingers and on to the screen; but then […]