Crybaby College Students and Their Bogus Trophies
I’m a small blue dot living in a blood-red corner of a red state, so I’ve grown accustomed to hearing right wing talking points. I don’t like them, but they…
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Karen R. Tolchin
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Karen Tolchin has been teaching contemporary literature, creative writing, and film at the college level for a whopping two decades. She holds a bachelor’s from Bryn Mawr College and a doctorate in English and American Literature from Brandeis University, which explains both her stores of literary knowledge and her impressive array of nervous tics. Her book, Part Blood, Part Ketchup: Coming of Age in American Literature and Film, was cited in William Safire’s New York Times “On Language” column (2007). In 2015, she won a university-wide award for teaching excellence at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her latest venture is the DēKa Storytelling Institute, LLC. At home in Naples, Florida, with her son Charlie and her husband Tom, she has finally accumulated more seashells than books.
The Pot Thrower: Notes on the Death of a Brother
If Charlie had finally lost his focus after all these years, well, no wonder. I’d have lost it after about fifteen minutes wrestling with CF. We had to help him find his resolve again and get back his health, not stand there crying.