March 7, 2019
When I started college, back in the last century, I was only the second person in my family to attend. My brother had started an engineering degree, but didn’t finish it. I began college as an English/Philosophy double-major because a family friend told me that was the best preparation that a lawyer could have, and […]
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August 9, 2018
Although it is now August, a few lines from Tess Taylor’s poem “High July” (from our 2019 Common Reader, Work & Days) resonate with me as I think about the coming fall: We watch—mere human perception— baffled again when did it happen everything humid this weedy too-muchness In New Jersey, everything is much too humid; […]
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