Seeking adventure beyond watching corn grow in his hometown, life changes dramatically for Robert Goluba days after graduating from high school. He attends Army basic training, a state university, and crosses the Atlantic to live with a family in Germany. A family Robert has never met that speaks a language he barely understands. It doesn’t […]

A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler’s Daughter. Lynn Walker watched her dad, John, deteriorate from Miami undercover narcotics agent to drug smuggler, from protective father to monster, a very charming monster. By the time she was in high school, her dad was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. There, John made a connection […]

Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education. Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn’t easy if your brain isn’t quite right. “I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call ‘clinical.’” In these […]

Stories from an agent, activist, and adventurer. Everyone has dreams of what they want to accomplish in life. Marty Essen’s childhood dream of becoming a herpetologist gave way to his dream of becoming a popular DJ, which led to his dream of becoming a big-time talent manager, which morphed into the dream of becoming an […]