I am not sure I have ever been more worried about a decision in my professional life than I have been about determining whether – and how – to talk about my latter years in television in a request that women’s rights be more fully acknowledged. Continue reading Love

I was heartened to read in several places recently that the nacre oysters produce in coating grains of sediment in the transformation process is “strong, resilient, and iridescent.” Continue reading Pearl

One of the most memorable stories I recall being told in graduate school was of the lead-up to the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and a series of mediated talks between two constituencies seemingly at intractable odds: tobacco farmers and public health workers. As I remember, it was during the process of learning about one another’s respective positions that these groups learned something surprising: Continue reading Trust

More and more, it feels important to articulate that civic identity is a layered concept, and that this layeredness is good. Continue reading Refuge

Even a broken clock is right two times per day, they say. Continue reading Time

Having opened a notes program on my computer for the first time in a long time this afternoon, I happened across this poem from September of last year. Continue reading Slalom (Poem)

“I … yearn … for a Delaware … license plate,” my professor mused, almost to himself. Continue reading Food

“It’s forever. Next!!!!” Continue reading Loving Boaz (Satire)