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You have navigated to the personal website of H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr. I am a professor of communication who is all about narratives and their central role in scholarship, politics, cultures, and counter-terrorism.

I live and work as a narrative ethnographer, which is to say that I am never not working, never not writing, and never not learning more about narrative ways of knowing. For me, narratives offer answers to four questions:

  1. How do we make sense of everyday life?
  2. How do we connect new information to existing knowledge?
  3. How do we justify the resulting actions we take?
  4. Who do I want to be in the future and how might I best accomplish that life?

My blog, “The Daily Narrative,” is here for your reading and commenting pleasure … add your own narrative or counter mine.

In addition to the blog, please check out my recent publications, public appearances, and forthcoming books and articles. Let me and the others who read it know what you think, what you like, what you don’t like, and, please, share with us your stories …

- H.L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr.

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Latest Blog Posts

  • "Lightweight Maintenance Chemo" Begins ...
    Returned to the Four Winds Cancer Clinic yesterday to begin “lightweight maintenance chemo.” I didn’t sleep well the night before, my blood pressure was elevated, and I was strangely a little nervous. But once again the lovely and caring people who we are all so fortunate to have working there cheered me up, checked me out, made sure San and I were comfortable, pronounced me “looking good” (always makes me smile) and plugged me in.…
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  • The Return of the Mutant Protein Ninjas, Or: It Was a Short Remission, Wasn't It?
    The Return of the Mutant Protein Ninjas, Or: It Was a Short Remission, Wasn't It? The truth is that I had hoped – we all had hoped and prayed – for a longer remission. But pancreatic cancer of the sort that is fond of my cells, a deadly cancer that turns otherwise perfectly ordinary, hard-working, and righteous proteins into mutant ninja cells, has a history of finding a way, even after a remission, to cause more trouble. So it is with undeniable sadness that I report that I am no…
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  • The Continuance of a Certain Ambiguity
    The Continuance of a Certain Ambiguity Nothing, like something, happens anywhere” --Philip Larkin On Wednesday I had a follow-up CT-scan, this time on my upper chest to check for any damage from six months of chemo and to give my new oncologist, Dr. Robin Obenchain, a more complete picture of what my dear ol’ Granny – Nellie Grimm Saylor – used to call “my innards.” I also had the usual telltale vials of blood removed from my body. On Friday San…
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Featured Books

  • Counter-Narrative

    Counter-Narrative

    “A rhetorical tour de force that offers academics and the public alike a persuasive counterstatement against far right political views... to reclaim the original intention of U.S. democracy—‘to promote the common good.’”

    - Lawrence R. Frey, Calgaard Professor of Communication and Social Justice, Trinity University

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