Tag: teaching
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The Riverside Monster
Image by Jimmy Lai/HIGHLANDER My alma mater, University of California, Riverside (UCR) emailed me yesterday (cuz’ I’m on their email list) with a request to fill out a survey. Despite my misgivings about the likelihood of anything this old geezer says being thought of as relevant, I decided to go ahead, mainly because I want…
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Tales of Sweet Melissa
My wife and I have always named our cars. My first car, a white 60 Chevy BelAir—one of those with tail fins—was named Whiskey, and her first car, a giant burgundy Olds 88 was named Gypsy. We were both poor in those days, and when our old cars died one after the other, my father…