Missouri

Today is the bicentennial of Missouri’s admission to the United States of America, shamefully as a slave state, as part of the Missouri Compromise. I’m going to chose to ignore the circumstances and celebrate instead the anniversary of statehood. My connection to Missouri goes back to at least my great-great-grandparents on one side of the

Back at it

Nathan at the office bet that I wouldn’t last eight weeks of no-office time. Nathan was right. I emerged from summer holiday last week. (The back-to-school dreams are real.) At the office, order number one was to redesign my space after desk and office furniture went to the new department chair and a new-to-us conference