Observations: Travel: Finland
“It turned out that the Finnish and American governments had created a chair to bring in a different professor each for a year to teach American Studies.”
Allan Winkler
Observations: War
"When that service was over and I was back in graduate school, the very first draft lottery took place during my first year and it was a harrowing time."
Observations: This running life
"I became intrigued with track as a toddler. My father had been a pretty good quarter-miler in high school and college."
Observations: Family
"I’ve long envied folks whose extended families live nearby. I have friends here in Oxford whose kids and grandkids live in Hamilton, or Cincinnati, or even a bit farther away, but close enough to see regularly without any trouble."
Observations: Auschwitz on my mind
"And it made me think, even more than I had before, about antisemitism and the attacks on synagogues and Jews, both around the world and in the United States."
Observations: Barack Obama recalled
"About 20 years ago, I was teaching at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, on a Fulbright grant, when I received a copy of Barack Obama’s new book, 'Dreams from My Father.'"
Observations: The atomic age and me
"My father was a Japanese language officer, who interrogated prisoners and translated captured documents in the Pacific. He also went into Nagasaki after that bomb obliterated the city."