“I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate.” —Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Now that you have some general idea of differences in the student population, I’d like to talk a few minutes about what I think an average student is and then discuss with you what a typical class might be like. Let’s begin my talking about an average student entering his or her fre...
Now, extinction burst at the national level is much slower, but in this case we actually know very clearly what triggered it: it was Obama’s election in 2008. Sarah Palin, the Tea Party Movement, the birther movement, and ultimately MAGA. It is a 10-year tsunami of rage in the face ...
There were a lot of lady Grab drivers in Thailand. The lady driver was not so young; maybe she was in her late 50s or early 60s. Really amazing, right?! She was quite friendly. But the thing is, she doesn’t speak English that much. She just said “hello.” ...
My art materials may be crude, but through these stained walls I teach myself to feel the limits of space. How big it is. At each corner, another planet begins again, just over the line. I am bringing the outdoors in; this is a conservatory of the macrocosmic: potted jungles, hope ...
This most grandmotherly of Mexican dishes is prepared Chihuahua style, meaning the pork has been cut into uniform-size chunks, in a grainy sauce flavored with dry spices. Owner Humberto Huerta hails from that northern Mexican state, and his narrow restaurant--with its live guitar music, dusky ...
But now I do not see it like that. Sometimes retreats are necessary in order to advance: reculer pour mieux sauter, as the French say. And the title has positive as well as negative associations for me, as it is the name of the house near Cambridge where my friend Juan Mascaró lived...