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PROFESSOR MEETS GUN, Part 9: Suck My Glock
UD got a cab ride to the Chantilly, Virginia gun show last weekend with her taxi driver friend, G. No...
ABCs and PhDs: Summer Camp for Biologists
For the last month, my family and I have been living at the Friday Harbor Laboratories, run by the University...
We are not alone
When it comes time to create a campus sustainability plan, I'm not expecting to be able to limit my thinking...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Re-Entry #2
It took the better part of a week, but I think I'm over the jet lag now. The laundry is...
On Writing in Public
As a rule, I don't write in public. It's too exposed, a little pretentious, and just not me. Besides, when...
Thoughts on Service
It's a measure of just how far behind I've been lately that I didn't get around to this story until...
Drama Mama: A little more time to grow
Family. One of dictionary.com’s definitions of family reads: a group of people who may be blood relations who share common...
This Just in From Plato
Advice for novelists, essayists, and poets everywhere from Plato, by way of our mutual writer friend Marcus Aurelius: …he who...