by Drick Boyd | Oct 13, 2023 | Featured
A Post 9/11 Insight In October 2001, approximately six weeks after the tragic bombings of the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and United Flight 93 over rural Pennsylvania, I gathered with about 100 educators at a conference in Austin, TX. The original goals of the...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 9, 2021 | Featured
Almost anybody 30 years or older probably remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard that the World Trade Center had been attacked on Sept 11, 2001. I was teaching a class of first-year students and some other students ran into our class,...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
This past week my work was extremely stressful. I felt, as I often do these days, that my responsibilities far outstrip by capacities to meet them. I feel beholden to my colleagues, my students, my friends and family members. I worry. I pray, I meditate, I remind...
by Drick Boyd | Nov 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
As we approach Veterans Day (Nov. 11), I am moved to reflect on another year in which our nation has been involved in the Iraq war with no resolution in sight, and now is threatening to attack Iran to involve us into yet another conflict. Meanwhile wars of various...
