Eek. My mom just called to let me know that the very week-end I’m thinking of taking the kids back to Alby-Turkey for a visit, my high school graduating class (1986 in da house! whattup — Woo Woo!) will be having it’s 20 year reunion. I honestly do not know whether or not the occassion […]

Reason One: I love the midwest because as I passed the cozy lobby of the Walden Inn on the DePauw University campus (which is where I am tonight, about to read seditious literature to the students), I overheard a group of middle-aged Indianans, or possibly they were Academics and hence fundamentally stateless, playing “It Had […]

OK, so before you all tell me, let me make a correction to my last column’s Erratum (the one I’ve caught so far, anyway):
Carol Gilligan didn’t write You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah Tannen did.
Gilligan wrote In A Different Voice.
Both extremely worthwhile, and then there’s a cool late-90s book to follow up with whose name I […]