Thought Stories

Operation Human Soul

One summer I took a reading class at another high school (not my own) in which I read a book a day for 8 weeks--the best summer of my...

I am a writer

How do I know I am a writer when I haven't been writing much (since the pandemic, since November, since 2012, since...)? First, I'm not...

Surviving 2020 as a Teacher and Scholar

What a year it turned out to be. Everything I thought I knew changed. How I taught--that changed. How I managed my work--that changed....

War and poetry and history

My dissertation, which I researched over five years, was arguably really about war and poetry and history. I would not have characterized...

Thought made visible

I'm semi-surprised it took me this long (ten years?) to rethink the name I use for online writing. Nearly since it began being a thing, a...

If we don't share research, why do it?

I started this academic year thinking that the one thing I missed out on last year was investigating all the different research our...

I wrote a lot

As I assess what kind of writer I am today, I look back on the writing I created years and years ago. I cranked it out. In 2000, I wrote...

Progress unhindered by custom

The motto of the Air Corps Tactical School (the foundational school for Air University) is: Proficimus More Irretenti. And for those who...

I said good-bye to tenure and hello to JPME2

Mid-career, after I'd earned tenure at a civilian university, I chose to change schools. I accepted a faculty position at a joint...