I set a timer for 30 minutes, put my phone in the other room, and wrote.  I haven’t been writing lately. And it isn’t because I d…

Since my anxiety shows up as guilt and overthinking, any gratitude practice can fail. It goes like this: I start to think ab…

Okay, hear me out: One day in 2020, after reading A Raisin in the Sun , A student closed the book and paused. She l…

I presented at the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE) pre-conference hosted by the California Writing Project …

March 21, 2023 Dear Board of Trustees,  I am writing this, and I hope that you take the time to read this in consideration of the…

I love to be around water. I could never live in a place that does not have a body of water near it. Every time I go home, I walk…

I'm currently in grad school and the reading is a bit dry. I wanted something that was big, juicy, and filled with paradox. R…

"Learn the rules so you can break them."  I hate that statement so much. It's so packed with inheritance and creat…

Work has been really hard.  There is always so much to do, and more can always be done.  There is that duck metaphor that always …

For the last two weeks, I have been teaching a credit recovery course for students who failed (have a D or F on their transcripts…