Question of the Day: “Should I drop out of my doctoral program?”

Honestly, I am not really trying to answer this question. I know the answer. I know it “like you know a good melon,” as the woman says in Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally. There have been too many years where I vacillated from one side of a choice to another when, deep down, I…

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Question of the Day: “What lessons did I learn from my son on our nightly run?”

My son and I have been running nightly for the last week. He’s much faster than I am, so we walk to our starting spot and then he takes off. I jog casually behind him until he is done. After he runs his distance at his own pace, he turns around to meet me and…

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