Wayne A. Gilbert

I just finished reading “My Crazy Brother” (HCN, 3/31/08). I cried. I’m a 30-year teaching veteran, 22 of which I’ve spent in a tiny community college in Colorado, where higher education is 49th in the nation. My classrooms are filled with under-, un-, wrongly and oddly prepared students. Social workers, school counselors, and other do-gooders […]

Dear HCN,In her writings, Terry Tempest Williams always challenges her readers to think and to act in new responsible ways or face some inevitably dire consequences. In the same voice, she confidently reassures and comforts those same afflicted readers. Her recent essay, “Engagement in a time of terror,” however, left me cold, at first (HCN, […]