• Substack post: It's not always about research-based best practices. Most times it is about taking the time to care if graduates had a professor who cared about them as a person, made them excited about learning, and encouraged them to pursue their dreams, their odds of being engaged at work more than doubled (4/26/2026)
• Eleven Commandments for University Graduation Ceremonies (4/18/2026)
• Substack post: Pathologically Genuine: A 2nd version of a Banana Slug in the Mojave Desert (4/14/2026)
• Substack post: Pathologically Genuine: A Banana Slug in the Mojave Desert. (4/11/2026)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine XVI: The Missing Map: For most of my life I believed everyone else had been given a map for navigating the social world. I assumed I had simply missed the day they handed them out. 3/22/2026
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine XVI: Lunch with Omar. 3/10/2026
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine XV: A scene from a large professional meeting. (3/10/2026)
• Substack Post: Dogs with Autistic Humans: The Relationship Spectrum (AI generated podcast narrated by my dog and pet therapy partner, Brea) (3/08/2026)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine: A revision of the vending machine story: I would love any comments. (2/22/2026). This is my first attempt at changing a self-contained essay into a chapter.
• Substack Post: A Short Ode to Spring. (2/21/2026)
• Substack Post: Shasta Golden Lake: Spiritual Intervention or Coincidence (2/9/2026)
• Substack Post: Spontaneous generation of stuffed animals (February 1 2026)
• Substack Post: The Legacy of newspaper forgetting a letter in my dad's name. A 't' can change everything. How the absence of the letter 't' can change everything or just make you laugh  (January 27, 2026)
• Substack Post: My first chance to talk about my book project "Pathologically Genuine" at the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation January 24 2026
• Substack Post: A Hurricane, a Generator, and the Dryer Plug Apocalypse: Ashland, Virginia may in fact be the spiritual Center of the Universe (January 23, 2026)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine: What do you think? Here is what ChatGPT thinks (1/18/2026)
• Substack post: Pathologically Genuine XIII: Autism, Dorm Life, Finding Community, and the Only Hat that Ever Gave Me Meaning. (1/03/2026)
• Substack post: Pathologically Genuine XII: The Confluence of Autism, My Birthday, and the Holiday Season: Autism is probably one reason I feel miserable on my birthdays but it is not the whole story. (12/30/2025)
• Substack Post: Dave Barry made 2025 a year worth remembering. Dec. 27 2025
• Substack post: Pathologically Genuine XI: Lonesome, I Know You Too Well (12/20/2025)
• Substack post: Pathologically Genuine X: The Green Thing 12/14/2025
• Substack Post: Why being a meteorologist, and not a climate scientist in the classroom matters: A metaphor.(12/08/2025).
• Substack Post: The last day of class is bittersweet: Being a pathologically genuine, autistic empath, is a gift in teaching. (12/02/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine (commentary): Our Understanding of Complex Problems is Rarely Absolute and Clear. (November 20, 2025)
• Pathologically Genuine IX: Autism and Stuttering (on substack too)  (November 10. 2025)
• Substack Post: Finding meaning in academe: from physiological and ecosystem ecology to autism (October 30, 2035)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine VIII. Something Fine (October 25, 2025)
• A few reader comments on Pathologically Genuine (10/18/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine VII: An oxymoron for autistic people like me. (10/16/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine VI: Autism and Vending Machines (10/10/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine, Post V: The joy of Stimming (9/29/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine, Post IV: Autism and Pets (9/01/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine, Post III: Autism and Narcissism (8/17/2025) 
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine: Umwelt and Autism (draft) (8/13/2025)
• Substack Post: I spoke at graduation. All I could figure out to do was tell the audience to be a tree... (8/4/2025)
• Substack Post: I Retired (Phased) Today. I am Anxious (8/1/2025)
• Substack Post: Happy Birthday to Wisteria Soft Love Brea (7/31/2025)
• Substack Post: I Would Know that Shit Anywhere: A short funny story (7/29/2024)
• Substack Post: Possible Benefits of Subscribing to my Substack (7/28/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine: Reflection on a Poem, Turtles, Evolution, Teaching and Autism (7/24/2025)
• Substack Post: Braiding Sweetgrass, Inner Peace, Terrapin Station and a Sea Turtle Named Colemanite (7/22/2025)
• Substack Post: Pathologically Genuine: A Preface to a Story I Want to Write (7/21/2025)
• Substack Post: Climate Change I Need Acclimation to You (7/21/2025)
• Substack Post: It's Hard to Run from the Sky (7/18/2025)
• Substack Post: Challenges with Research-Based Best Practices in Higher Education: A Climate vs. Weather analogy (7/17/2025)
• Substack Post: Thoughts on a Monochromatic day on Lake Jeanette (7/17/2025) 
• Substack Post:  What I tell students about me, my mental health and the environment I try to create in the classroom (July 14 2025)
• Substack Post: Teaching is extraordinarily meaningful work (7/13/2025)
• Substack Post-  An absence appreciated on Lake Jeannette (7/9/2025)
• Substack Post- University Athletics, the House Settlement, and Student Fees: Should student fees support compensation for student-athletes? (7/07/2025)
• Substack Post: Speeding down the slope into the wall of irrevelance: 
  Am I a fool at this late date? (7?04/2025)
• Substack Post-Why spending your honeymoon in bed is not always a good thing
  a wedding story. (7/04/2025)
• Reflections on the endurance test I love and hate at the same time: Graduation (6/1/2025)
• Be a Tree. Stay Forever Young. My 2025 graduation remarks, that are mostly songs (5/10/2025)
• Getting hit by your own boomerang: reciprocal appreciation (3/13/2025)
• Fatigue and Neurodiversity (3/9/2025)
• It's Official: Phasing out, ushering in (3/3/2025)
• I could be busy saving lives if I weren't panicking over F&A (2/20/2024)
• Carnegie Classifications: The New Lake Wobegon (2/18/2025)
• Responding to Flattery from Artificial Intelligence (2/13/2025)
• Running from the sky: Darkness Visible (12/16/2024)
• If I can find hope in the fading light..(12/14/2024)
• Fiction in the Space Between III: A Reaction to an excellent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Assembly NC (8/28/2024)
• Fiction in the space between II: you use data but it doesn't mean, you're not just telling stories (July 25, 2024)
• July 1 2024- an absence appreciated (7/2/2024)
• They call it paradise, I don't know why. If you call someplace paradise, must you kiss it goodbye? (6/17/2024)
• Fiction in the Space Between (6/12/2024)
• Reflections on the last day of classes and words from the provost and the chancellor (4/25/2024)
• The UNCG Faculty voted no confidence in the Provost: How did the chancellor respond? (3/14/2023)
• Short Response to the UNCG Chancellor's email regarding the budget situation. (3/12/2024)
• Chancellor's Response on March 8th: who put a fence around common ground? (3/8/2024)
• Why I will vote yes on the resolution(s) expressing no confidence in the provost's leadership (2/20/24)
• Warriors for change vs the armies of the status quo: this narrative has to change. (2/12/2024)
• Universities fear for the future. Leadership fears the wisdom of those inside (a song) (2/02/2024)
• A case study in how not to lead change: UNCG's Academic Portfolio Review (rpk style) (2/1/2024)
• Structural Budget Deficits vs. Actual Deficits (1/10/2024)
• “It is time we face reality, my friends, that we are not exactly rocket scientists: the ballad of academic portfolio review”- 11/29/2023

 

• “Moral of the story:  UNCG students leave me in awe! You should try to recruit them for jobs and/or graduate school! (with a forward)” 11/5/2023

 

• “What is a best practice for reviewing academic programs? An empirical study using Google suggests it is not Academic Portfolio Reviews” 10/27/2023

 

• “Narrative: higer ed needs disrupted; resistance to change (mostly faculty) is the problem. Reality: higher ed will be disrupted when an organization figures out how to do so” 9/27/2023

 

• “Another reason why faculty matter: do the math” 9/13/2023

 

• “A note to graduate students regarding some  reflections about the UNC-CH tragedy: using a mirror reflecting back to me an image of my world of mental health challenges.” 8/31/2023

 

• “What you say and what others here: advice for the Fall Semester” 8/5/2023

 

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• Kayaking the waves of technological and academic change, without a paddle. (5/23/2023).

 

• The New UNC budget model- a red herring?-Chancellor Gilliam, we need you. (5/1/2023)

 

• Tobacco, Cottonwood, and student research:  A tale starting at my beginning as an independent scientist boomeranging back in the homestretch of my career. (4/16/2023)

 

• "It's Time for Time" part 2: Why do I feel so guilty and frustrated about protecting time? (4/1/2023)

 

• “My email conversation with a consultant.” (3/20/2023).

 

• “An open letter to the UNCG faculty senate and to faculty colleagues: it's time to pay attention” (1/27/2023)

 

• “A Yin/Yang day: a 50th anniversary and 2nd anniversary of major transitions in my life” (12/22/2022)

 

• “Grades don't define your flight path” (12/10/2023).

 

• A Devil's Marathon and the Academic Rhythm (12/10/2023)

 

• The holidays aren't always fun and restorative (12/10/2022)

 

• Who cares about what is in a University video?  Believe it, or not, I do. (12/05/2022).

 

• “The academic rhythm is beautiful, but it has its melancholy moments.” (11/30/2022).

 

• “Tribalism trumps (no pun intended)” (11/13/2022)

 

• " I voted today-- a lot went through my mind” (10/26/2022)
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• Tales from my journey from faculty to senior administrator and back again: what matters? (10/12/2022).

 

• “Reality vs. Reflection” (10/12/2022)

 

• “Free Will Astrology and Writing Songs of Praise” (9/30/2022)

 

• “Reflections on 1 Tishri 5783” (9/26/2022)

 

• “The connections and feedbacks between anxiety, decisions, Brownian motion, time, opportunity & transactions costs, and maneuvering through a crisis” (9/16/2022).

 

• “Welcome Back! My satirical spoof on a Fall welcome message.” 8/16/2022

 

• “It’s Time for Time!” (8/10/2022)

 

• “The power of friendships across backgrounds: another muse on a David Brooks column” (8/05/2022)

 

• “Why do many public universities obfuscate the costs of doing externally sponsored research?” (8/1/2022)

 

• “Time: a limited or infinite resource?” (7/08/2022)

 

• “My peeve about how my university (and many others) report research success in research funding: Why do we have to mislead people?” (7/20/2022)

 

• “Something I learned from my dog and didn't understand until years later: don't punish a social animal by throwing them out of the pack” (7/13/2022)

 

• “When will we ever learn?” (7/11/2022).

 

• “A short response to Holden Thorp's editorial on inclusive teaching” (7/11/2022)

 

• “The Great Faculty Disengagement: comments on a Chronicle of Higher Education Article” (7/11/2022)

 

• “Thank you, David Brooks: Caring matters” (7/11/2022)

 

• “PODCAST: Discussion of the Land Grant Mission with written thoughts about how I am beginning to think that higher ed has lost its way (a work in progress)” (6/11/2022)

 
“I discuss leadership, an ecosystem model for a University, and an ecosystem test for making resource allocation decisions with Dean Matt Waller of the Walton College of Business at U. Arkansas” (6/11/2022)