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Fall 2024

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Fall 2024

The Late Truck Driver: Excerpts from the book

David Longanecker retired at 70 after a 45-year career in higher education policy. Then he went back to school.

Truck driving school.

Longanecker (’68 Socio.) “loved big trucks” for as long as he could remember.

As a kid, he relished stories of his father’s and uncle’s trips in an 18-wheeler. Later, he loved riding in the cabs of semi-trucks when he hitchhiked to Washington State University.

Here, enjoy excerpts from his book, The Late Truck Driver: Following the Dream (Archway Publishing, 2021).

Book cover of The Late Truck Driver

 

From “Training to Drive Truck”

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Cover of A Life Impossible book with page underneath
Fall 2024

Resolve: An excerpt from A Life Impossible

 

Michel and I went swimming in the shallow water of the Gulf of Mexico to get in some light exercise without putting too much strain on my body. I waded along the shoreline in chest-high water so I could still touch the sand with my feet. Then, very gradually, a subtle undertow pulled me into deeper water. In astonishment and with raw, primal fear, all I could do was look at Michel, and do my best to cry “Help.”

I had always been a strong swimmer, but now I was seeing and comprehending in stark detail just how much my body had withered. My … » More …

Illustration of Jamie Truppi
Fall 2024

Journey to self through food: Q&A with author Jamie Truppi

Jamie Truppi (’00 Liberal Arts) doesn’t sugarcoat. The Idaho nutritionist recently released an unapologetic food-and-marriage memoir and is already contemplating a prequel and a sequel.

Clean Food, Messy Life: A food lover’s conscious journey back to self details her early dating life through divorce via her complicated relationship with and passion for food. Here, she dishes on everything from her writing process, lessons learned, and more.

Book cover of Clean Food, Messy Life

 

How did Clean Food, Messy Life come about?

I’ve always been a writer, even … » More …

Book title We Few, We Academic Sisters in stylized orange and red lines
Summer 2024

WSU academic sisters look back

They launched their careers at Washington State University in the 1960s and ’70s, becoming full professors during a time when reaching that milestone was extremely rare for women. Forty years later, a friend and colleague urged the “Troika,” as they call themselves, to tell their stories in a volume that she then edited.

We Few, We Academic Sisters: How We Persevered and Excelled in Higher Education was published by WSU Press in 2023. The same year, WSU’s department of sociology, where the trio worked, turned 100. The authors and their editor, all longtime friends, took part in the centennial celebration, presenting a panel … » More …