A Tricky Business
Teaching folks how to write fiction is a tricky—and relatively new—enterprise. You have to be coach, therapist, parent, and performer all at the same...
The School of Working Women: A Letter to My Mother
Dear Mom,
Greetings from Seattle. It’s going on ten months without seeing you, but I swear I hear and smell you in the pre-lucid hours...
What I Learned When I Recreated the Famous ‘Doll Test’ that...
After hearing about the Clarks' "Doll Test" in undergraduate school, I became interested in studying racial identity development. In the "Doll Test", the married...
The Silver Lining of the Black Box
I teach to Black Boxes.
At the beginning of the school year teaching psychology to high school seniors on Zoom was intimidating and confusing. Black...
Underfunded
Robert’s black hi-top
fade has been dyed blue
this week, and after
I teach the prompt
to prepare these
third and fourth graders
to write poems
on constellations
they’ve created
by connecting the...
A Modest Proposal for The Greene New Deal for Education
Marjorie Taylor Greene now represents my home state of Georgia in the U.S. Congress. Unfortunately, radical far-left transgender communists in the Deep State have...
My Night of Fundraising
In the winter of my junior year at college, I found a squirrel. The squirrel was frozen in a block of ice on the...