Columbus visit

So on Friday night, Diane and I drove down to Columbus to visit Joanna, a friend of ours from college (and venerable author of the blog Poetry Without Pity). Joanna was hosting the Haiku Death Match, a poetry slam, at the Kerouac Kafe. I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve never been a poetry slam. (Queue [...]

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Making fire with sticks

Okay. Paint my face red and call me an ass… It turns out that tonight was one of the best, most emotional nights I’ve had in a long, long time. I’ve reconnected a part of my past and I felt as though I were a Hiram College student again, for just an instant, with some [...]

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Mourning the loss of a favorite professor

This afternoon, I received the most unpleasant news e-mail message from my college’s alumni list. Kathy Feather, one of my favorite professors and my academic advisor for two and a half years, died of brain cancer. According to one of her colleagues who happens to attend my church, I learned that she was diagnosed as [...]

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