Several times already this holiday season, my stepdaughter has asked whether her father or I will take her shopping on Black Friday. Sadly for her, the answer is a unanimous,…
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If you could dress in a way that perfectly reflected who you are on the inside, what would you wear? This is a question that’s been on my mind lately….
Courtesy of NFL.com Those of you watching the Monday Night Football game last night between the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons witnessed first hand the thin line between social…
This fall will be my 10th year of teaching sociology of gender at our small college campus, and you’d think after ten years I’d know everything there was to know….
Driving back from a visit to see my family in Kentucky this Sunday, I witnessed a recurring tragedy or just another day on the road, depending on your point of…
This week, I read an article on The Atlantic.com about the relationship between Facebook and loneliness, called, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” In a nutshell, the answer is no. Not…
The following is the text of my speech from the closing session of the National Main Streets Conferences in Baltimore this Wednesday: Thank you all so much for having me…
So, I’m instant messaging my brother the other day. He is also a professor at a liberal arts college. Being a professor at a liberal arts college might be a…
As a big fan of the NFL, I cannot quite resist the call of the Combine, the annual celebration of freakish athletic ability and the source of the intimate information…
It’s Thanksgiving week, and so I decided to re-post this reflection on a vegetarian eating turkey in honor of the holiday. Though I had started this blog before this post,…
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