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Variations on Variations on Grief
Maybe that’s what grief is: a fragment, a dangling modifier looking for a subject.
Jun 14
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Daniel Nester
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May 2025
Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)
From the notebook: the writing grift, ghost signs, DNA, and a quiz.
May 31
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Daniel Nester
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April 2025
Once More to the Campus Center
I stood back. She dove in. That’s the whole story.
Apr 30
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Daniel Nester
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March 2025
Never Going Back to My Old School
The panel went fine, except for the part where I dropped an F-bomb. On my love for teaching, the Peter Elbow of it all, and saying the quiet parts out…
Mar 30
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Daniel Nester
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The Joke That Will Outlive Our Entire Family
Our mom’s gravestone is a punchline, and she’d love it.
Mar 1
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Daniel Nester
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February 2025
Fuck It, I’m Leaving Early
Navigating life after teaching—one awkward crowd, botched conversation, and early exit at a time.
Feb 7
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Daniel Nester
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January 2025
Collecting My Failures
I am no longer the goofy professor with graphic t-shirts and sport jackets. I’m someone who has empty shelves in his basement.
Jan 13
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Daniel Nester
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December 2024
A Die Hard Epiphany
If I waited for the skies to part to figure this out, I’d still be waiting. And I have presents to put under the tree.
Dec 24, 2024
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Daniel Nester
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November 2024
I Miss My Students Already
At first, upstate students they seemed like aliens. By the last ten years, they reminded me of my kids.
Nov 23, 2024
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Daniel Nester
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October 2024
On Corian Countertops and Dropping the Kayfabe Act
I know two things aren’t metaphors for each other. For now, I'll just write them in the same sentence, let them lie next to each other.
Oct 6, 2024
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Daniel Nester
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September 2024
What We Talk About When We Talk About Towns and Gowns
Do I regret bringing all these writers to campus? No. I feel gratitude.
Sep 25, 2024
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August 2024
Don't Make Me Steal My Own F$%^ing Office Signs
Just give them to me, fair and square.
Aug 31, 2024
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