View from a Stationary Perch
A writer’s recollection of significant moments and sites often plays a major role in the creative process. I received a letter recently from a writer-friend who lives in … Read more
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ZTF: Freedom’s Orbit
Second chances and renewal came to mind when I learned that the comet “ZTF” will become visible soon, after a cosmically brief 50,000 years. It’s never too early … Read more
‘Clarity, Mr. Wolf, Clarity!’
A nationally known professor returned my first paper with a devastating “C –” intoning, “Clarity, Mr. Wolf, clarity!” I took a wanderjahre between my sophomore and junior college … Read more
The Particle Poet’s Inflammatory Smoking Jacket
One colleague’s smoking jacket was rumored to be the same one he had worn for twenty years without being dry-cleaned. Most faculty dressed casually in the once upon … Read more
A Professor Learns that Every Man Is an Island… For Better and Worse
Bubble-Wrapped Professor Arriving at SUNY-Buffalo in the midst of the anti-war movement and counter-cultural atmosphere (festive and communal), I assumed I would be joining a department in which … Read more
