Wakeup Call: September 11, 2001 The cacophonous ring of the motel-room phone woke me into the eerie dream of a bad tv movie — it was Tuesday morning. In the half-sleep grogginess of my 7am wakeup call, the curtains in the room looked opaque except for the light gray tight creeping through the window edges. […]
In the children’s story The Wizard of Oz Dorothy, the main character, exclaims as she’s walking through woods that scare her, “Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!â€Â  When our composition students show up on the first day of classes they often feel like exclaiming a 21st century version of Dorothy’s lament. Looking like deer that have been caught […]