I’m a woman with a Ph.D. in sociology and I love the NFL. I realize that makes me a fairly small demographic and so the commissioner, the networks, ESPN and…
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Nobody likes to scrape the gooey insides out of a pumpkin. Or almost nobody. I don’t mind so much. It’s just pumpkin guts. But I understand that there’s something disconcerting…
In the fall, one of my colleagues in the philosophy department brought to campus a Tibetan lama, of the Bon tradition, which you’ll excuse me for summarizing, is kind of…
In the last year or so, I rediscovered how much I love reading. It’s sad to say that I somehow forgot. Partly, in the first three years or so of…
Two episodes in, and here’s my initial reactions. First, much like the last season of Buffy, I think there are too many characters, and even worse than the last season…
I lived in Mississippi for five years and Alabama for one year. I never thought I’d have to come to Indiana to live through a hurricane. Now I don’t want…
I’ve by and large avoided talking about the election so far for several reasons. First, it just seems too insane to even wrap my mind around. Two, I was hoping…
I don’t want to sound pretentious, but I know what a peach tastes likes. I just ate something, and it wasn’t a peach. It looked peach-like. It came from the…
I’ve been reading Wendell Berry’s novel Jayber Crow, something it took me a long time to work my way towards, despite my own geography and the urgings of people I…
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