Make A Man Out of You

When I began teaching college students, I realized: this is what it’s like to be a man. I was a woman, and now I’m a man. All right: this is what it’s like to do work that has historically been done by people of privilege (teach college) instead of by women (teaching people younger than […]

Two Weeks a Scholar

I have always lived at the top of a hill. Here I live not at the bottom, exactly, but quite a ways down. Where the town is. The climb to the top, where the university sits purposefully poetic, is three short blocks at a steep angle, on concrete, and then brick, sidewalk. It rains and […]

Moved

My life is perfect now. I moved into one-fourth of an 1880 house, giving me my own leaded glass window, a glamorous fireplace, and so much space I feel like a refugee family should move in with me immediately. Many family and friends came to help me move, and brought food, and we ate pizza […]

Balloons

I wasn’t sure I wanted to deal with DT being in town. One great benefit of being in Kansas City is that one never has to see “Trump” on anything, except that one chiropractor on 93rd Street, which I am sure is no affiliation. The provinces, as I think of out here, in the provinces […]