SLU Is

SLU is Tony Albrecht (Law, 2009)SLU is Josh Aranda (A & S, 2009)SLU is Laura Aranda (A & S, 2010)SLU is 783 Facebook friendsSLU is 14 years of lifeSLU is 50-something courses I facilitated/animatedSLU is…

Now/here Man

You said, “I don’t seem to fit anywhere” I can relate to that— Fourteen years teaching at the university as a statusless adjunct No tenure No bulging curriculum vitae full of books, articles, papers, conferences,…

Forget Pessimism

Just this morning I came across the following exchange with Noam Chomsky, which reminded me of what Steve said last night in his talk on Syria… Interviewer: Did you go through a phase of hopelessness,…

Ko Un

1. Ko Un‘s Ten Thousand Lives is a remarkable sample in English of his twenty-volume work in Korean, known as Maninbo.  In his early years, he was a Buddhist monk.  Later, he was part of…