Dear Carmen, Congratulations are in order!  After four months of toil and crying while you run the shower, your applications to graduate schools are complete.  Let’s not go overboard with the back-patting though.  There is […]

Dear Carmen, Strangely, I’m glad you’re back.  Besides synthesizing the eleven legal pads of information compiled during your Caribbean cruise, you’ve been weathering an upper respiratory infection.  This is a trying juncture in your brief […]

Dear Carmen, As of today, you have less than a month before the first round of your graduate school applications are due.  In previous correspondence, we decided-without even making mention of Newark-that Rutgers was out […]

Dear Carmen, Did you honestly believe that writing four letters in one day would redeem you?  Leave it to the iniquitous to reduce the gradations and psychological intricacies of forgiveness to the realm of knee […]