"The words we use and how we say them are much more than sounds, they tell a story that gives us away, revealing a history about and behind us, a place and a people that we have come from."
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
“A Quest for Social Justice: Notes on an Encounter” continues my accounting of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
A Startling Note: "Looking for Gay Friends" in the Triangle Place narrates a gay man’s experience of sexual awakening on a university campus.
"She needs to be an artist to be an artist-teacher in adult community learning. She needs to do both to become the best she can be."
"Unspeakable is a consideration of the silencing effects of stuttering, political censorship, unspeakable wartime atrocities, and the silent communication within virtual relationships."
"A tree once taught me that those moments of ruin are only a pause, a passage really, on the way to something else."
"When I was first accepted into the PhD by research program in the UK, I had mixed feelings, mainly because I was about to pursue a career that I didn’t have the heart for, and partially because I would need to explore yet another new culture, country, and environment."
"When I return to Sam’s place with the cheesecloth, I smell our “soup” pot. Shit. I envision the blotter headline: ECU Professor busted for marijuana. What a way to make my graduate mentors proud and to show success at this professor business."
