

Ryanne's Op-ed Assignment
Maybe it started with Aristotle and his three modes of persuasion-Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Maybe it just happened last month when we...


Vignettes
With or Without you by U2 Childhood I’m 12 and I just got home from school. I learned today that the boy I had a crush on likes me. I...


Married to Madness
“Hush little baby, get some rest, Tomorrow is Daddy’s big Micro test.” Excerpt from Married to Madness: One Family’s Journey through the...


Letter Essay
Dear Amanda, I used to think that I would never make the same mistakes Dad made. I thought that because of all the things I had read...


Art of Letter Writing
February 4, 2016 Dear Letter Writing, Initially it was the nostalgia that drew me to the idea of writing letters to people instead of...


16 weeks
Ebb & Flow “are two phases of the tide or any similar movement of water. The ebb is the outgoing phase, when the tide drains away from...


Wildflower Ordinaries
The hydrangeas she gave; the most beautiful I've seen. Pressed between the pages, next to the clover, still green. Locked in time us two...


"I am used to it", she said.
Pedagogy, Bombs and Teaching Well ”Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.” Rumi For a moment I considered a career...


Simple kinda Man
Music My son, in a moment of disparity, decided he wanted a Mohawk. I wasn’t home at the time. I was enjoying the quiet of a yoga class....


1101-FS017 Unf*ckwriting: Field Studies
So, it's official. I am a teacher. An educator. I didn't really ever think I didn't feel official, I mean I've been in front of a class...