Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Today is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's birthday.  In so many ways, she seems so relevant for today.  For one thing, she can tell a compe...

This morning, I slept until 5:20 a.m., which is really late for me.  I don't know that I have an essay of a  blog post.  Let me collect ...

 Like many people, I have spent the summer reading books about racism.  Is that the best response to the killing of George Floyd and the dem...

Last night felt like a wild and stormy night.  We saw the menace of a category 4 storm headed towards the Texas-Louisiana coast.  That secti...

This morning, as I went to the National Hurricane Center site to read the 5 a.m. update on Hurricane Laura, I thought about how familiar the...

I remember the first time I heard the Violent Femmes.  In 1984, I flew to Memphis to see the boyfriend who would later become my current spo...

 Here's a snapshot of my life right now:  last week, I looked up my schedule for my online classes and went to work adding the dates and...