Monthly Archives: January 2010

Last year a few weeks before I was to teach my first class at Rutgers, I was working on my laptop at a café in Newark furiously trying to complete the syllabus. “What you got going on there? You a … Continue reading →

Sometimes the words won’t come. There is, once again, unspeakable tragedy heaped on the brilliantly resilient people of Haiti. What do you say?  You are asked to write a 750-word piece for a newspaper on what Martin Luther King, Jr. … Continue reading →

I stopped making new year’s resolutions a few years ago when I realized that most of my transformations, whether they happened gradually or abruptly, never came on the exact day I wanted them to. Although I am filled with countless … Continue reading →