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Putting the ‘Lunt’ in Volunteer.
By Tricia Lunt, English Faculty. To all the do-gooders, past, present, and future, I bid you a Happy National Volunteer week! Studies show that volunteers lead lives that are measurably more enriched...
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Let’s Do Brunch
By Tricia Lunt, English Faculty Oh, how I love brunch! Starting with Easter this Sunday, high season for brunch will be in full flower until the next snow fall (next November, ideally). Brunch is the...
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….Not Easy Being Green
By Tricia Lunt, English Faculty. Last week I went to get two of my favorite shoes repaired for the warmer weather. One was a pair of Birkenstocks sandals, essentially the only shoes I wear in the...
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Every Birthday Can Be a Milestone
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty Our first 21 years of life are stacked with milestone birthdays, like: 16 (Driving!) 18 (Voting! Oh, and smoking, and armed services, and such.) 21 (Drinking and...
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Kitties, and Puppies, and Babies, Oh My!!
By Jane Wendorff-Craps, English Faculty. When the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts began our curriculum meeting one winter’s morning with a kitty meme from the internet, I thought, “No, no, not...
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Tickle & Blow Away
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty Ear blowing has been a hot topic in the past couple days. On Wednesday in Game 5 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals, Lance Stephenson of the Indiana Pacers was...
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To Be Perfectly Honest, I’m Not Supposed To Love Football. So, I love it.
By Jenny Jocks Stelzer, English Faculty. I know that I’m most likely overthinking, overreacting, and overstating this, but I find myself constantly on the defensive over my love of football, probably...
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Unleash the NFL Tantrum
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty During the first Sunday of the NFL season, I did a lot of “grown up” chores in the morning: I graded papers, cleaned up my house, did a little yard work, and went...
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A Eulogy for the Video Store
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty. I watched a lot of movies over the holidays. I went to the theater, visited Redbox, logged onto Netflix, and watched DVDs and Blu-Rays I own. However, there is one...
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The Michael Jackson Level
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty What’s your favorite Michael Jackson song? Think about it for a second. Okay, what’s your answer? Today, I tested a hypothesis of mine by texting and asking a number of...
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Being “Productive” Thanks to Technology
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty My senior year of high school, I vowed to get in shape. At that point, I had been playing the role of “fat kid” since at least 5th grade, and I was tired of being...
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Superhero Rebuttal
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty (This post is a response to “Superhero Movies are Rarely Super” by Michael Stelzer Jocks.) Yesterday, my dear colleague Michael Stelzer Jocks wrote about how superhero...
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An Excess of Political Humor?
By Paul Gaszak, English Faculty Political humor is a wonderful and necessary rhetorical tool in shaping our perceptions about politics and politicians. Growing up in the 80s/90s, I was shaped in part...
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