Monthly Archives: March 2013

I hope to forever be a “militant sunflower.”

My sunny Saturday evening read is “Envisioning a Healed World, “an essay by the poet/educator/farer-of-light Mark Gonzales. I’ve experienced Mark speak and perform multiple times and each time I come away with a new energy — sometimes this energy comes

I hope to forever be a “militant sunflower.”

My sunny Saturday evening read is “Envisioning a Healed World, “an essay by the poet/educator/farer-of-light Mark Gonzales. I’ve experienced Mark speak and perform multiple times and each time I come away with a new energy — sometimes this energy comes

Confessions of a Teacher Who Takes Things Way Too Personally

I am a teacher. This translates into a lot of things. At bars, stating my profession elicits reactions ranging from raised eyebrows to free rounds of shots to awkwardly indirect and occasionally funny comments about my sixteen-year-old male students’ attraction to

Confessions of a Teacher Who Takes Things Way Too Personally

I am a teacher. This translates into a lot of things. At bars, stating my profession elicits reactions ranging from raised eyebrows to free rounds of shots to awkwardly indirect and occasionally funny comments about my sixteen-year-old male students’ attraction to

I am sad for Hugo Chavez’s death.

I am sad for Hugo Chavez’s death. I am. Not because I felt any particular affinity for the Venezuelan president and nemesis of the West. Not because of the time I laughed in a precarious sadness, a hilarity, a relief

I am sad for Hugo Chavez’s death.

I am sad for Hugo Chavez’s death. I am. Not because I felt any particular affinity for the Venezuelan president and nemesis of the West. Not because of the time I laughed in a precarious sadness, a hilarity, a relief