Shortly after beginning my doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I made a life-changing discovery. Over the Thanksgiving holidays I read a novel entitled Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers. It was big and brilliant and literally took my breath away. It also changed my life because I feel deeply in love with science, which led to my becoming an editor for Omni Magazine, which led to moving to New York City, which led to launching my own magazine, AlleyCat News, which covered science, technology, and finance, which led to working as an editor of an independent feature-length film, Illinois, which led to work on a documentary on the history of the Alabama Hospital for the Insane. In addition to teaching, my passions include listening to audiobooks and roaming around my neighborhood in Chelsea in New York City or wandering the back roads of Alabama whenever I go back home.