Bees on Blow

I was scrolling through my Amazon wish list this morning over coffee. Much to my dismay, it's 25 pages long with over 600 books, some that I listed as far back as May of 2001. When I started it, I was in my final year of graduate school and couldn't afford food, much less the… Continue reading When You Wish Upon a Book →

This was first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. If I have learned one thing about graduate study it is that it is a solitary endeavor. Certainly, there are associations and conferences and occasional social events with colleagues, but for the most part, the bulk of what we do is done in isolation. This is… Continue reading Living with the Enemy →