Samuel Jaye Tanner @samueljayetanner

Paid in Full I’m told one shouldn’t publish their financial data online. Least of all in a silly little blog about silly little things written by a silly little man. I suppose I don’t really b…

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A Collection of Beautiful and Absurd People I present a collection of beautiful and absurd people. I credit that phrase to my advisor, Dr. Timothy Lensmire. Well, co-adviser. Cynthia Lewis and Tim shared me when I was a doctoral student at t…

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14 Years I titled this short piece 14 years because Katie and I have been married for fourteen years. My title makes me think of this song by Guns n’ Roses. That Guns n’ Roses song linked above …

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Freshwater People “Are we able to take any of these items with us?” I asked the librarian of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. This was after somebody else asked if we were allowed to touch the bo…

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Can’t You Feel Our Souls Ignite? I think it is time for me to retire from social media. The screenshot of the post above is the best I can do. Here’s a quick defense of the post. *** Meowalicious’ cone that keeps her f…

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Coughing! This is my third installment of a series of blogs that have included titles that end with exclamation marks. Each of these entries concern matters of health. Psychoanalyze that as you will, kind re…

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Colonoscopy! “You probably need to schedule a colonoscopy,” my doctor said. “Yeah?” “Yeah.” Yeah. Okay. 45 year-olds have colonoscopies. I am a 45 year-old. A simple logic pu…

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Dizzy! No, I don’t mean this kind of Dizzy. I mean this kind of dizzy. I can tell my anxiety is seething with the start of another fall semester when I walk over the Burlington St. Bridge. Out of no…

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Tatonka or Like a Buffalo The ball was floating towards my side of the field. I broke on it like a thousand galloping horses. Like a charging bull. Like anybody with a conscious mind fleeing the desolation of the internet i…

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Just a Humble Young Man I’m just a humble young man, making my way through the world. This is what I told a friend of mine at work the other day. She laughed loudly. I laughed loudly too. I’m a professor. I&#8…

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Fall in Iowa City It is polite to greet somebody in the Midwest with a question about the weather. It is with that Midwestern greeting in mind that I ask the following question: “How is the weather?” It …

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For Those Who Come After The school year is here. Solomon starts 6th grade at Southeast Middle School. Samson starts 5th grade at Horace Mann Elementary. Katie is teaching at the University of Iowa. Young Samuel is serving…

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Oh, Yeah, Anything Could Happen Oh, yeah. I keep these blogs weekly. Even when I’m busy. Even when I’m going through big things. Even when I’m going through small things. Some might call me disciplined. Others m…

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Keep Echoing My friend Natalie took this picture in 2009. At the time, she was a high school senior working on a final project in a Dramatic Literature class. I was a high school teacher. We were in the Media C…

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Me and Minnesota There I am at Emily’s Lebanese Deli. My wife Katie and I ate at Emily’s Lebanese Deli last week. The best tabbouleh in the world. In my world, at least. Katie and I took a walk near St.…

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Mewaaaaaaaaaa! Our eyes met across the street. I felt a spark. I know he did too. “This way!” I howled to my wife and children. “Be quick now.” Quick we were. We rushed across the street f…

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Walking into a Wet Washcloth “It’s like walking into a wet washcloth.” This was my wife Katie’s reply when I asked her how hot it was outside. Iowa City in July of 2025. Humidity and corn sweat. It is l…

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Oh, Hi There “Oh, hi there,” thirty-four-year-old-me says to me. There is a mischievous look hidden behind those dark sunglasses. I recognize that shirt. Forty-five-year-old-me still has that shirt.…

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Everything is Change Everything is change sounds like the title of a self-help book. Kurt Vonnegut wrote that we are here to help each other through this thing, whatever this thing is. Self-help? More like I’ll h…

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Talented and Gifted I don’t know how my son Solomon learned to play piano as well as he does. And of course parents often say things like I just wrote above. I’m listening to him play the theme from Lord o…

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Crème Brûlée and Truffles It’s been a millennium since Katie and I went on a date. It’s been three millennium since Katie and I went to a concert. That’s a long time. I think we saw the Eels at First Avenu…

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Triglycerides My doctor entered the room. My doctor (she’s a physician’s assistant, actually) is great. She’s funny, has tattoos, and is more than empathetic about this white coat syndrome I&#8…

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The Hunger There is a wild animal in my house. A beast with a hunger. And that animal must feed. Sometimes (it is a little too often if you ask me), my wife Katie forgets to feed Theo his wet food. Theo and h…

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Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World As a teenager, Dad dragged me Woodland Hills, a church led by the charismatic and heretical Dr. Gregory T. Boyd. Waking up for church was annoying, and I wasn’t about to wave my hands around …

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Being in Denver And here I am writing about a trip to Colorado again. As I mentioned last week, dutiful and kind reader, I traveled to Denver for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Conference.…

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Going to Denver My second trip to Colorado in as many weeks. I’m becoming a real Coloradan. Put me in a cowboy hat. Put me on a horse. Point me to the mountains. No, don’t do any of those things. But d…

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Improv and Me My relationship with improvisational theatre continues. It has been twenty years since I agreed to direct an improv troupe at Cooper High School. I knew nothing about improv. But I imagined I was c…

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Being in Boulder Talk about a thirst trap! There I am, kind reader, in my spa robe and my spa sandals. On my way to the steam room. In-between massages. Living a decadent life. Seeing how the other half lives. What…

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Going to Boulder If you’ve spent any time reading my writing, and I hope you have, then you know that I have always been something of a nervous flyer. I avoid traveling when I can. Still, I’m writing th…

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Shooter! “Look, there’s shooter,” somebody called out as we were matching up, getting ready to start the game. I realized, sadly, they were referring to me. Shooter? I’m anything but…

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