Sun, Mar 2nd, 2008
Like most of you, I’m busy. I not only have the normal crapload of work stuff to juggle, but also a few books at various stages of completion, my outreach/activism stuff, and an everyday life to live with its own demands. I also get a lot of email, spread across a variety of accounts. Like […]
Tue, Feb 26th, 2008
Somehow, I ended up on some other Torres family mailing list. I now get emails addressed to “Santiago, Jorge, Ray, JESSE, Lillian, Eddy, Dora, Ben, MARY, Rachel, Ernesto, Aurora, Rafael, mera, Bobby, Eliseo, Joe, Rolando, Rolando, Leo/Liz, Raul, Nacho, Vince.” I got the schedule for the MR AMIGO association event (whatever that is) and some […]
Mon, Jan 28th, 2008
Every morning, I wake up to our local NPR affiliate, North Country Public Radio. I’m generally not a huge fan of NCPR’s local coverage, mostly because I find it mind-numbingly dull. Having grown up in Philadelphia, no news seems complete to me without a discussion of the previous night’s murders; however, NCPR does a fine […]
Sun, Oct 14th, 2007
I don’t often come to these pages to rant about the inanities of grammar and punctuation,1 but lately, one thing has been desperately annoying me, so I must share. It irritates me so singularly and perfectly, and yet, it is everywhere. Of what do I speak? What is this dark and ubiquitous monster?
It is, […]
Thu, Sep 27th, 2007
It isn’t often that anything that I’m involved with is described as “fairy-tale” (though I do dig ponies and rainbows — like, a lot). Yet, a very kind writer from Newsweek used just that word in a recent web feature to describe the “vegan romance” I share with Jenna. And really, out of everything else […]
Tue, Sep 25th, 2007
are completely different, but they always cheer me up.
monkeys: Play Now | Play in Popup
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Sat, Sep 8th, 2007
The last 6 or so weeks have been intense, which explains my disappearance around these parts.
First, I had to hand in my tenure file, a behemoth of seven two-inch ring binders bulging forth with student papers, evaluations, syllabi, my published work, and other ephemera from my last 5 years at St. Lawrence University. This thing […]
Sun, Aug 5th, 2007
As I wrote earlier, Jenna (my wife) and I are training for a half marathon. We just finished our first full week of running, and it wasn’t bad. Here is yesterday’s run1 which was on a loosely-packed and rocky trail with a few hills. It wasn’t bad at all, but we were lucky to get […]
Sun, Jul 22nd, 2007
As some of you know, I started running fairly seriously last year, and even more seriously this year. Though I have been no stranger to aerobic activity — I was a competitive cyclist for a long time — I’ve never been much of a runner. But these past two years have been really busy for […]
Thu, Jun 21st, 2007
This morning, my writing time consisted mostly of me hacking and slashing through a section of my book in which I discuss how large-scale organizations like PETA and others encourage people to purchase their activism on a member/donor model rather than empowering people to do things on their own. Then, I remembered that the article […]
You’re reading the personal website of Bob Torres, university professor of sociology, author and publisher, podcaster, and all-around geek.
I am an assistant professor of sociology at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, USA. I hold a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Agricultural Science from Penn State, and my MS and PhD are from Cornell University in Development Sociology.
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Being vegan in a non-vegan world
An informative and practical guide on veganism written with my wife Jenna.
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