Steve Charles—During my favorite moment from this year’s Big Bash Reunion Weekend, five guys from the Class of 2004 were being videotaped in Lilly Library, telling stories from their days at Wabash […]
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Steve Charles—About this time last week I was 30 miles out on Lake Michigan riding the bow of John Buford’s 27-foot Coronado sailboat, a hood-snapping northwest wind in my face as I […]
Steve Charles—The spring issue of Wabash Magazine came out last week, so I’m thinking of all the good stuff that didn’t make the cut. Here’s one. From David Krohne’ s Earth Day […]
Steve Charles—A colleague stopped me in the Kane House parking lot yesterday to tell me the latest edition of Wabash Magazine—“39 Under 39”—was not a good idea. That focusing on only 39 […]
Steve Charles—The journalist chases the story, the essayist the idea, the memoir writer the dissipating vapor of her life. But the poet loves the word. The logos. The “in the beginning was […]
Steve Charles—At the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis last Friday, I heard this inspiring thing. I was interviewing David Orr —not David Orr ’57, trustee emeritus, citizen of Crawfordsville and San Cristobal, Chiapas, […]
Steve Charles—Earlier this year, I wrote the following short piece about Gary Livengood, an electrician with the College’s Campus Services, the guy who handles the sound system and taping for Commencement and […]
Steve Charles—As a student I struggled with learning mathematics, so as a writer I’ve often asked friends who are mathematicians to describe for me the beauty they see in their chosen discipline. […]
Steve Charles—One of the delights of working at Wabash is being in the right place, right time when students get good news. Sometimes great news. I had one of those moments […]
Steve Charles—A few months before his untimely death in 2006, Wabash Bookstore Manager Mike Bachner ’70 came into my office with a grim look on his face. An unusual expression for Mike. […]
Steve Charles—A college doesn’t need a denominational affiliation to be a place of faith, and Wabash honors and respects many different faiths and denominations, believers and doubters, seekers and questioners. This Sunday […]
Steve Charles—Friday morning I got an email from my friend Mark Shreve ’04—a link to photos of a spiral staircase Nic Bitting ’07 and his colleagues at Seattle Stair and Design are […]
Steve Charles—Last week I was watching Dan Simmons ’70 reading from his novel Drood to a packed University Bookstore in Seattle (courtesy of my computer and YouTube). I was pleased to see […]
Steve Charles—I’m not a fan of opera. I’m not enchanted by Baroque music. Whenever I hear the term I can’t help thinking of Cogsworth the Clock from Disney’s Beauty and the […]
Steve Charles, Nashville, TN—My last two interviews of a five-day road trip will follow a relaxing meander yesterday back down to Nashville from Louisville via Bardstown and the Bluegrass Parkway. Professor Emeritus […]
Steve Charles, Louisville, KY — Began the day surveying the battering the forests of Kentucky took during last week’s ice storm. All along the road between Nashville and Louisville the trees looked […]
Steve Charles, Nashville, Tennessee — I dragged the bad weather and single-digit temperatures in Indiana down here with me. Nashvillians don’t seem happy about the winds and ice, either. I escaped both […]
Steve Charles, Sewanee, TN—Just checking in from a road trip to Kentucky and Tennessee, where I’ve been interviewing and photographing alumni for the upcoming “39 Under 39” issue of Wabash Magazine. The […]
