| | Miscellaneous materials on this website that may seem unrelated to its
manifest mission
- Page devoted to my rural Iowa roots.
- Page devoted to my efforts to invent a new Ben
and Jerry's ice cream flavor.
- Contest to explain a magnet that utterly
baffles me.
- Ever-growing list of the quotations I've used in my
signature file since starting my job here at UW.
- I've now put my dissertation online as being
available for one to download (page link to 1.5 MB file).
- Exciting photographs of my office (for remote
friends who clamor to know what it is like)
- Page of photographs of my family and me, etc..
- List of my favorite words to say or
hear
- Page of some selected e-mails I've
received from strangers about my webpage.
- Annotated version of the homily that I
delivered at the wedding of Rob Clark and Amy Kroska. My answer to the
question, "What do you do when you are asked to be the speaker at a
completely secular wedding ceremony between two close friends who are also
sociologists?"
- My dramatic reading of "Summer
Is," a poem tacked to the bulletin board of the laundry room of my
apartment complex, Summer 2000. (1.2MB wav file). Or my dramatic
reading of "Understand",
a poem by 14-year old prodigy Danny Watson that won a Parade magazine
contest. My reading of this poem moved my pal Barb "Donut" Halpenny to
tears (652 KB wav file).
- Palindrome party invitation from my
graduate school days (especially timely to post in 2002). Also, the
invitations for what will likely be my lone stints hosting a
bridal shower and hosting a virtual
baby shower.

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