Picking up the mic/pen/keyboard
Check, check, one-two, one-two; mic check, one-two, one-two. Time to blow the dust off and enter this space. It's been a while. In some ways I feel as though I'm in a dream. There was a man once who lived in a small mountain village in central Japan and shared his thoughts about that experience. Who is this man? Am I this man? Since finishing my dissertation and graduating from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa a lot has happened. Some highlights: -I obtained a temporary academic position and moved to Tokyo--it was hot and weird, I've never been a fan of Tokyo. -I obtained a tenure-track academic position with Earlham College, located in a miniscule midwest mecca called Richmond, Indiana. -A beautiful corgi, who my wife and I named Pualani, suddenly came into our lives--and changed them forever, our first daughter. -My wife joined me in Indiana and gave up on living in Hawaii. We were depressed, we struggled, but eventually learned to appreciate live in the midwest, kind...