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  • Why I’m Happy I’m Sad

    Why I’m Happy I’m Sad0

    “Gloom, despair, and agony on me, Deep dark depression, excessive misery….” Those were the opening lines to a song based skit from the country music and comedy show “Hee Haw” back in the 1970s. Somehow the words and tune have remained stuck in my mind all these years. Those lines sum up my feelings regarding

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  • Why I’m Glad I Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Even Though I Didn’t Want To)

    Why I’m Glad I Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Even Though I Didn’t Want To)0

    “I am very unexcited to read this book,” I told a classmate of mine as I stared at the copy of Beloved sitting on the table in front of me.   I would describe myself as a book lover, but my fiction quota is relatively low. It’s not that I don’t like fiction. Rather, if

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  • Why I’m a ‘Misogynist’

    Why I’m a ‘Misogynist’0

    I’ve received any number of insults in the years since I began writing publicly. Lest you feel sorry for me, let me state up front that insults are a fact of life that any writer must learn to roll with, particularly if one writes for an online audience. But I must admit that there is

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  • Why I’ll Never Own a Cat (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)

    Why I’ll Never Own a Cat (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)0

    Last summer, a few neighbor children came running up to our house. They had found a litter of kittens under their deck. My 5-year-old daughter was out the door so fast I didn’t have the opportunity to shout, “Stop! Brain parasites!” I’ve been deathly afraid of cats for five years now. It all stems from

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  • Why I’ll Miss Carrie Fisher

    Why I’ll Miss Carrie Fisher0

    Carrie Fisher once said her life could be summed up in a single sentence: “If my life weren’t funny, it would just be true.” At the heart of this sentence lies the reason I will miss Carrie Fisher: She was honest. The love of truth is a rare thing. T.S. Eliot and others have observed

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  • Why I teach a course called ‘White Racism’

    Why I teach a course called ‘White Racism’0

    The need for students to learn about racism in American society existed long before I began teaching a course called “White Racism” at Florida Gulf Coast University earlier this year. I chose to title my course “White Racism” because I thought it was scholarly and succinct, precise and powerful. But others saw it differently. Many

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