This is what I remember from a recent conversation that I had with my mentor that started out about leadership but ended up on lo…

It is magic to have your brain organized by hearing someone smarter than you speak.  It happened to me last night when listening …

I wrote this on the Notes app while flipping through my handwritten journal. Where does my taste come from?  Not that sense that …

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…