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How I left academe and what came next

What Yellowstone gets wrong by trying to be too right

All about epiphanies

How can you increase your odds of experiencing epiphany?

Appreciation and (vs.?) Compensation

Does payment strengthen or erode respect?

Are universities good or bad for us?

A DIY cure for academe

Branding will be the end of us

Why I Run

Is the American Dream a fairy tale?

The ethics of writing about others

Four Questions for the Assessment Committee

Why gardening is my religion

How do you know the Flint water crisis isn't a hoax?

How to speak a teacher's love language

How rituals help me heal from academe

The real reason Americans are angry about college debt forgiveness

How many millions has your university lost on athletics?

How much "why" do you see in your workday?

Humanities Professors and Their Institutions Need a Divorce

"Back to school" is an American problem

Why I sorely needed a summer in Prague

Literature is a cord that draws us together

A lost son comes home

Academe is suffering from foreign occupiers

Why I am searching for family roots abroad

Teaching is an art, not a science

From the Age of Mass Migration to the Great Resignation

Searching for roots during a major life change

Leaving acadame is not like sabbatical

Why Study Literature?

Colleges have a boy problem

The education of a firefighter

The not-so-funny Valentine

Numbers Trouble

Are the alpha dad and the clown really our only options?

Can you be recovering and still be "in it"?

Do you really lose a book for every child?

Who gets to think about purpose?

Rituals as Recovery

The Calling

Why I'm Launching The Recovering Academic