Somewhere in upstate New York, Syracuse University looked at its course catalog (apparently the academic equivalent of a hoarder’s attic) and said, with admirable calm, “This no longer sparks enrollment.” Eighty-four majors. Gone. Or paused. Or gently escorted to the existential waiting room where discontinued things go to […]
Here I am, perched on the edge of my kitchen counter, coffee in hand, trying to figure out how to guide my very practical, very determined, very my son through the college selection process. It’s like being a therapist for someone I gave birth to, and trust me, […]
For reasons that defy logic, caffeine, or the laws of neural firing, R.E.M.’s “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” has set up camp in my brain. Rent-free. No deposit, no lease, just living there playing at 3 a.m., during Zoom meetings, and while I’m feeding the dogs. Now, I haven’t […]
What’s your go-to comfort food? Let’s talk about pizza. Not haute cuisine. Not microfoam cappuccinos or farm-to-table kale. Just good old-fashioned, cheesy, slightly greasy, possibly folded-in-half New York-style pizza. The real universal food or as I like to call it, “the one thing that unites my household, my […]
Back in college, I had a lot of academic interests. Although, there was never any question that psychology would be my major. My major major. I ended up with a double major with political science. I know I was a major nerd, geek, or whatever other term that […]
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