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Clear filtersSome thoughts on liminality
May 20, 2011
Earlier this week, Brandi asked all of us what our favorite word was. My answer: "liminality" -- the state of being in-between, caught between two states of existence, on a threshold...
Endgame. And after.
May 13, 2011
In which a professor wrestles with time, flirts with an existential crisis, and wins the lottery.
Honey! I'm Home! (but oh--)
May 11, 2011
Watching Harry Potter on the plane home yesterday did not fulfill my wish to land in a place where everyone still had British accents.
Mo-zhe lee da o-sta-nuh da spuh too-ka?
March 26, 2011
Travels in Bulgaria, coming home to London. Things I relied on: my phrase book, the kindness of strangers, and painkillers.
"I know the moon / And this is an alien city."
February 8, 2011
London, week one. It's sort of like Ohio except not at all. For instance, flowers are growing.
Shelter from the storm
December 9, 2010
I am beginning to think of Oberlin as a secret society, or a religion, some bizarre underground cult. Once you discover that it exists, you can't go anywhere without running into fellow initiates.
Somewhere in England; or, why Gandhi is my homeboy
October 10, 2010
Toto, we're definitely not in Ohio anymore.
Oberlin in London
July 4, 2010
Why the semester you don't spend in Oberlin can be the most valuable part of your Oberlin education. For one thing, it raises the stakes.
I love London. And I love Oberlin because it's going to bring me back.
June 13, 2010
I went to London, and saw all the wrong things. It was marvelous and exhausting, so I only wrote two paragraphs. You can read them here.
First week back!
February 13, 2010
In my first week back I'm learning about the Supreme Court and revisiting the time I ate strange pig parts in Spain.
A letter to my Spanish host mom
October 28, 2009
It's been five months since I got back from Spain, and the nostalgia only grows stronger.
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