“Stand back. I’m a loser on a winning streak.” – Ocean Vuong. I started listening to a recent Fresh Air interview with poet Ocean Vuong. Poetry is not something that I typically seek out, but her new book Time is a Mother is right up my alley. It’s about grief after the loss of one’s […]
Continue reading →I am part of a Christian faculty book group here on campus and our most recent read is Francis Collins‘s The Language of God. Some likely know Collins as the current (and long-standing and soon-retiring) Director of the National Institutes of Health. Before that, he led the Human Genome Project, which mapped out a complete […]
Continue reading →I recently finished reading Sonja Ardoin and becky martinez’s illuminating book Straddling Class in the Academy. Social class had been on my mind since reading Anthony Lubrano’s In Limbo and I jumped on this book after hearing about it from a colleague at Penn State’s Schreyer Institution for Teaching Excellence. Limbo was a personally impactful book, as I […]
Continue reading →Public Administration Quarterly Call for Papers Cannabis Policy in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Administration Guest Editors: Dan Mallinson (Penn State Harrisburg) and Lee Hannah (Wright State) A serious reconsideration of the fifty-year War on Drugs is building in the United States. The states have been strong drivers of the liberalization of […]
Continue reading →Death has always felt close at hand. My dad died when I was 13 from his fourth heart attack. This has haunted me as I reached the age of his bout with heart disease. My aunt died by suicide, so did a friend from college, and eventually my mom. This haunts me as I deal […]
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