Richard Fluck was a professor of biology at Franklin & Marshall College 1974 – 2011 and also was an associate dean of the faculty there 2005 – 2011. After retiring from full-time work in 2011, he worked in F&M's Office of College Grants 2011 – 2016.
Rico Stays is the final novel in Ed Duncan’s Pigeon-Blood Red trilogy. As he did in the other two books in the series, Pigeon-Blood Red and The Last Straw, Duncan…
In 2011, the Korean American writer and teacher Suki Kim taught English to the sons of North Korea’s elite for two semesters. When it came time for her to leave…
If you’ve ever built a sand castle in the intertidal zone at the ocean’s edge, you know what happens when the tide comes in: It washes away your castle, leaving not a trace of it except in your memory or a photograph.
Native Country of the Heart was the right book at the right time. It read like a personal letter from Cherríe Moraga to me, and I will be forever grateful…
When Jeffrey Phillips, a poor teenager in Chicago, shoots and kills a man in a carjacking gone sideways, Sandra Yanders, a teen witness from “the other side of the tracks,”…
Sycophancy (ˈsikəˌfan(t)sē) is the phenomenon known to most of us by alternative words or phrases such as sucking up, ass kissing, brown nosing, and bootlicking—words and terms that give sycophancy…
Volker Ullrich Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase As the son of a WW II veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, I grew up hearing stories…
Some people like to put together puzzles, the big ones with 500 or more pieces and an image to guide assembly. I never got too fired up about that kind…
On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a fruit vendor in Tunis, Tunisia, set himself on fire to protest official interference with his business. When he died a few days later,…
Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, on a high-stakes project. I actually liked…