With thanks to MF for the conversation that sparked this post.
I had a problem with timing when I was getting ready to take the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). Having spent the previous ten years studying, and then teaching English, I was unprepared for the rapid-fire of multiple-choice after multiple-choice questions and could never […]
The little corner of the Intermountain West where I work has recently become something of a boomtown. The energy industry is king on high dessert and mountain plateaus, and many people have moved to town to work on the oil-rigs, natural gas pipelines, and now, wind-farms that dot the landscape. Workers come from across the country […]
I fell out of a tree when I was in the fourth grade. It was a spectacular autumn day with leaves on the ground and a clear sky over-head—a day made even better by the fact that school had gotten out early for a local holiday. My closest friend and I had spent the day […]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Michael Pollan’s treatise on where our food comes from and the ethics involved in what we eat is simultaneously troubling, entertaining, and thought provoking. Twenty pages into the book, it will also have the careful reader considering every bite they put into their mouths. Pollan takes the mundane […]