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    • from 2003: Synchronicity, in memoriam Robert Hauter Myslik

    Monday, January 22nd, 2007

    [edited 2007 0130 to correct Rob's middle name, which was Hauter and not Hunter.]
    This piece dates from around 2003 February 10. I wrote it about three weeks after the death of a legendary colleague and true friend, Rob Myslik. Rob taught at Hun for nine years, including two while I was there, and [...]

    … If You Can Keep It

    Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

    It’s a truism that’s become so trite it hardly rises to the level of a bumper sticker: Freedom isn’t free. You see it slapped across the back of SUVs, taped to the windows in Circle-K’s. Some days, it seems everyone can mouth the words but nobody understands them. Freedom isn’t free. [...]