Monday, December 10, 2008 To: President Ann Weaver Hart Re: Professor Eugene Martin CC: University Provost Lisa Staiano-Coico, SCT Dean Concetta M. Stewart, BTTM Department Chair Jan Fernback President Hart: One of the great honors of my young life was to be named the speaker at my graduation from Temple University on May 22, 2008. [...]

On the train destined for Stockholm, Sweden on Nov. 1, 2008. By Christopher Wink | Oct 23, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com You take trains from big cities to other big cities. Lands, untold by tour books and unseen by sloppy tourists like yourself, unfold beneath your high carriage of jet setting: two months, 10 cities 3,000 [...]

On the Creative page of this site, I have posted a handful of travel essays I wrote for WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, while podcasting and blogging in Europe. They are not professional clips, but if you didn’t get a chance to read them this fall on WDSTL, see them here. Direct links below. Number of Views:78

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 8, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com Worlds – yes, disparate worlds – come to some form of a cross-section in red-eyed, late nights in train stations. Early Tuesday morning, we were doing that, surfing the intersection of the young and the acutely itinerant – being reminded of the sociological difference between situational [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct 26, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com He liked the movement of the mouse cursor on my computer screen. So I pried his hands from the keys and opened up Microsoft Paint. With a few interruptions to change color and tool, a four-year-old who stumbled upon me in a park in Budapest, Hungary [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct 9, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com We meet Sander and Neek at the outskirts of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Sean, his brother Brian, and I are on a bridge demarcating where the sex ends and the large, quiet residences begin. A small, sloping bridge over a small canal, 15-feet wide, on which [...]

Four months ago I graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia. I was honored enough to be named student commencement speaker. Read text of the speech here. Only now have I gotten video of my speech online. Have a watch below. Number of Views:459

By Christopher Wink | May 08, 2008 One week from yesterday three strangers riding beside me on the 3 bus will be dead. But I can’t know it. It hasn’t happened, and I’ve never spoken to them before and won’t in the future. To tell you the truth, I didn’t even like know they were [...]

I WAS FIRST IN SOUTH DAKOTA in 2005. I returned in May 2006 for a service immersion trip with a small group of Temple University students. It was then that I met a gaggle of friends from the Lakota Rosebud reservation near White River, S.D. It has led to lots of adventures, including two years [...]

There is a suddenness to life in this city. Surely it is exaggerated in the minds of those who live mostly in fears of their own creation. Four hundred dead of 1.5 million isn’t anything to the pain and poverty of many in this world, but murders on the streets of Philadelphia require a viciousness [...]