Ruminations on rootedness, place, community

Corresponding with a former professor regarding my next potential steps in academia, I made, in my most recent e-mail to her, the following comment
I should confess that part of my reason, beyond obvious things, for wishing to return is that N.D. [for, ideally, my juris doctor and, concurrent with that, either a Ph.D. or M.A. [...]

In the forthcoming issue of the Terrapin Times

Doubtless, some editing will occur; few of my pieces escape the “This needs to be shortened” machine. It’s one part paean to WFB, one part mission statement in prose form, and one part further attempt pretentiously to sound more erudite than I ever could hope to be. Enjoy.

Cogitating about the passing of William F. Buckley, [...]