A productive mid-life crisis

By Alan MacEachern. The middle stretch of my academic career.
By the time you read this, I’ll be dead.
Not really, probably. But it’s occurred to me that if I begin everything I write like that, imagine how poignant, how tragic it’ll be the one time it’s true.
I’ve been thinking about mortality a lot lately. Because I’m, you know, alive. But also because the last time I wrote for University Affairs, I was a fresh-faced Bob Benson, the junior guy in the office, and now I am a world-weary Don Draper. More...