Monthly Archives: May 2022

Memorial Day, 2022

Posted on May 30, 2022 by profmondo

Once again, we remember. For Sgt. James Michial Moore, USA, KIA, Vietnam, and those before and after. Archibald MacLeish was an ambulance driver and artilleryman in World War I, and his brother, a naval aviator, was killed on 14 October 1918. Kenneth … Continue reading →

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Painful Synchronicities: Alan White, RIP

Posted on May 26, 2022 by profmondo

Several times recently I’ve mentioned the death of my friend James Kolasa. As this moment, my friend, Dr. William Harris, is playing what amounts to a memorial set to James on the radio station of the college where he works. … Continue reading →

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Potpourri: Beginnings and Conclusions and Beginnings

Posted on May 23, 2022 by profmondo

Today would have my dad’s 79th birthday. During the penalty phase of my brother’s trial, I was asked about losing my parents. Of my father, I said that a son is supposed to admire his father, and that my dad … Continue reading →

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In Which the Prof Is Handed the Lost Chords

Posted on May 12, 2022 by profmondo

In the early 1980s, when I was a music-obsessed teen (as opposed to my current status as a music-obsessed, middle-aged man), I would listen to the radio late at night. This was before what I’ve come to think of as … Continue reading →

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Sunday Potpourri: Mother’s Day Edition

Posted on May 8, 2022 by profmondo

Happy Mother’s Day, gang! The Spawn is spending the afternoon with the Main Squeeze’s family up in Terpville, but spent nearly an hour chatting with Mrs. M yesterday afternoon, maintaining her record of being a Good Kid. And I hope … Continue reading →

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Sucker Bets

Posted on May 5, 2022 by profmondo

… and the odds will not improve. This is part of why I tell my students to seek anything but an academic career, unless they genuinely can’t conceive of doing anything else. On the upside, I got a short story … Continue reading →

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