One thing that’s supremely strange for a Midwesterner living in the South is the fashion. I’m not suggesting that what people wear down here is vastly different from what people elsewhere wear. Rather, that they get dressed to the nines for occasions you wouldn’t think would warrant it. Witness: women’s fashion at college football games. [...]
I wasn’t raised in a religious household. I’m not a religious person. I haven’t read the Bible. So my credentials here are shaky, at best, is what I’m saying. But here goes. Certainly you’ve heard about a church here in Gainesville that plans to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It’s [...]
One of my favorite quotes from a book reads, “it does not to do dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Lately, I confess, I’ve been dwelling on dreams. I try so hard to live in the now, as it were, but I feel as though I’m failing entirely. With my dissertation safely in the [...]