
Vita Brevis, Ars Longa
“Miss Merritt has retired,” so the letter I received in the late ‘80s began. At the time, I was teaching at Jones County Junior College where my colleagues and I were enjoying Robert Fulghum’s bestseller, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. “I must have been a ... Read More

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“I feel sorry for you,” the doctor says as he moves the electrodes over my bare chest, trying to find the optimal location above my breast to establish baseline heartbeat. A thousand miles from this exam room in Miami, Donald Trump is being sworn in as the forty-fifth president of ... Read More