When my son was a toddler, we likened our lives with him to living with a drunk rockstar. He’d trash the room in an inebriated rage, throw himself into the arms of beautiful women, demand food and drink at odd hours, melt down again, then-all smiles-approach you with arms wide expecting immediate devotion. It was … Continue reading
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An Open Letter to My Students
I’m sorry. I don’t think we should see each other anymore. When we first met, we both were so giddy at the prospects of our time ahead. There was so much potential for something amazing to happen. I thought about you constantly, planning each and every one of our meetings so that you would feel … Continue reading
International Women’s Day
Teju Cole writes,⠀⠀⠀⠀ For myself, I don’t like the easy out provided by spotlighting women’s work today. I want to be uncomfortable about how easy it is for a man to get through a world designed around the male ego. [… S]o much of the structure in which I dwell and move and prosper is … Continue reading
#noDAPL
After months of activity, the people talking, posting, and hashtagging #noDAPL about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) seem to have gone silent. The happy ending story of President Obama’s calling for a review of the plan shifted when our new president quickly not only reversed that order but called for a sped up timeline for … Continue reading
An Open Letter to my Students
I love you. This may come as a surprise since we’ve only known each other for a few weeks, and I still don’t know most of your names, but since the day we met—no even weeks before we met—I can’t stop thinking about you. You are the first thought I have when I wake up … Continue reading
Respect
This MLKjr weekend, I had a lot of conversations about leadership and authority, specifically about respect for a venerable position. They were very good conversations. However, at some point, this idea of respect for an office got conflated to owed respect to the person in the office. In short, the person in a position of authority … Continue reading
Day of Rest
My biggest deficit is time. I over schedule. It’s how I self-medicate. But also, I’m a productive bad-ass. My 80% is most people’s 110%. I get shit done. And I do it in ways that most other people wouldn’t have thought could be done (insert “she said” joke here). I am a problem solver, a … Continue reading
