while the world continues to prove it is on fire,

while the budgets get slashed and those with the most privilege try to tell us what we should care about i want to remind you that a room of scholars coined a class ground rule that we will never call the president by his first and last name.they call him Donald Duck, they call himContinue reading “while the world continues to prove it is on fire,”

On teaching a relatively young dog (who is the oldest she has ever been in her defense) new tricks:

I’m always thinking about Sundays about 11:59 pm about things ending about time and how it’s just a social construct and how even if it is just a social construct it’s still totally tripping me up all the damn time. I’ve got a handful of plans about everything (at any given instance) and I can easilyContinue reading “On teaching a relatively young dog (who is the oldest she has ever been in her defense) new tricks:”

on a Thursday when a student writes a poem and she shows only you

and it says that she is afraid of being herself and you ask why and she says it’s personal “like, really personal” and you say if she wants to tell you, that you would love to know and she asks why and you say you care and she asks why (because kids are really goodContinue reading “on a Thursday when a student writes a poem and she shows only you”