On a moonlit, starry fall night in Fayetteville, complete with a freezing mist, I couldn’t help but feel warm all over. We were exposed to the elements on a rooftop balcony to an apartment complex on campus. It was just the two of us and a blanket meant for one person. I felt absent from the rest of the world as I found an entirely … Continue reading Space Oddity
Stories are the key to the gateway to the past, present, and future. In my career in academia and outside of it, I’ve sat at the Knights’ round table, slept on a gondola in Venice, painted a white fence in Missouri, fought for survival during the Depression, threw parties in a mansion in hopes of catching the eye of the one I love, fought otherworldly … Continue reading A Man of All Time
Recounts, Reflections, and Other Writings 