Published in The Uncanny·May 16Finding WaldoFor 12 weeks, September to December, 2022, a total of 30 hrs, I taught in-person every Monday and Wednesday, 8:40 am to 9:55 am, in Middlebury College’s Axinn Center for the Humanities, room 104. …Democracy4 min read
Published in The Uncanny·May 7The Divided States of America: The Disillusion of Speech, Education & Culturefor my students, present and long inside the world of confusing animosity Only a fool would maintain that the concept holding the nation together, the United States of America, still holds true. From the Big Lie to the storming of the Capitol to the leaked Roe v. Wade Supreme Court…Identity Politics5 min read
Published in The Uncanny·Dec 7, 2021Abortion and the MidwifeOn a mild autumn day in Rosario, the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe, on the west bank of the Paraná River, on May 14, 1928, Liberata Baroni, my great grandmother and midwife, eased into the world Ernesto Guevara, the future Che. Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara…Abortion3 min read
Published in The Uncanny·Nov 18, 2021Why (I) WriteI’ve been writing and thinking about writing ever since middle school when a nun not much taller than I was in seventh grade pulled me aside and handed me a piece of paper with a magazine cutout of the word GOLD glued to the top of the page and said…Writing4 min read
Published in The Uncanny·Oct 31, 2021The Heart and the SoulDeath really never comes at the right moment. We find it hard to understand how we live when someone we love leaves us; we’re weighed down. We’re left with the density of unknowing, a darkness visible. But do they leave us? Are the dead, dead? American physicist Dr. Stuart Hameroff…Biocentrism5 min read
Published in The Uncanny·Oct 27, 2021The Silent Presence: Teachers, Boundaries & LearningThe COVID pandemic stresses on students, in my case, the mental health of college students, has made evident the wide boundary between the teacher and the student thick with emotional distance, and widened by a hierarchy of needs determined by a skewed value system. This boundary is not of the…Teaching And Learning7 min read
Published in The Uncanny·Oct 14, 2021In the Beginning, a Life on BoundaryI write to try and see the meaning in the crumbs that give me a sense of things, of who I am before it’s all over and it doesn’t matter. …Hybridity5 min read
Oct 14, 2021Beautifully written, thank you!11Benjamin HawthorneThank you so much for taking the time to read and to respond. Much appreciated!Thank you so much for taking the time to read and to respond. Much appreciated!1 min readThank you so much for taking the time to read and to respond. Much appreciated!----
Published in The Uncanny·Oct 9, 2021The Unhealable Rift: Coming Into BeingPart 2 (go to Part 1) I came into being in the relative comfort innocence experiences under the protection of weapons pointed at others — innocence born out of violence. I came of age in the distance from harm weapons afford those that create them; and those that can wield…War12 min read
Published in The Uncanny·Oct 2, 2021The Unhealable Rift: If someone jumps off a bridge, are you going to follow?Part 1(go to Part 2) We have this in common: we are born into a moral universe not of our making; we’re enveloped in it before we can reason. By the time I was five I held my father’s German rifle, a bolt-action Mauser. He held the barrel and let…Guns5 min read
