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Against the backdrop of the waves.
Posted on September 10, 2025 1 Comment
10 September 2025 It’s been over a month since we moved to Thailand for my sabbatical, and it’s taken about that long for me to catch up on everything that got away from me during a hectic spring and summer. My term as the Associate Director of the School of Leadership and Human Resource Development […]
New eyes
Posted on March 9, 2025 1 Comment
March 9, 2025 When the wheels touched down in Baton Rouge on the evening of February 22nd, it marked my return from my second trip to DC in 2025. I had also been to Southeast Asia twice since the year began. While travel can bequeath “new eyes,” as Marcel Proust famously wrote, it can also […]
A Year’s Worth of Life in August through October
Posted on December 1, 2024 1 Comment
1 December 2024 I spent most of the last post on work-related updates. This will likely have some of those as well. But the last 5 months have included a lot of personal things. This is a long post, so you’ll probably want to skip through, or not read it at all, but I want […]
Traveling to learn
Posted on May 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
15 May 2022 Sitting in my office reading chair –– a floral wingback that didn’t quite have a place in my house –– I decide to continue the book I’m reading before resuming grading. Thankfully, I have acquired the skill of reading for pleasure despite a haunting to-do list staring at me from my desk. […]
Oliver S. Crocco 