Week Links: 17 Oct 2020 Signal vs. Noise. Poetry: "preter-so(u)lar ⍟." Shutdown Rituals. Required Reading about Laura Southern and being a teacher. It's Week Links!
Poetry preter-so(u)lar ⍟ the exegesis of memes. the application of electromagnetic waves. extraterrestrial. the voyage beyond.
Week Links: 10 Oct 2020 The thin places. A poem. A teacher hack. Plenty of required reading about stuff like poetry, Kamala Harris, and #ThisIsWhy2020. Week Links is here!
Poetry Dulcinea This dream will be forgotten, save that moment where the don turns to me, smiling through sun-dried crust of old age and smacking salt pork between his gums.
Week Links: 03 Oct 2020 The President is now a pandemic statistic. An un-presidential debate. The death of academic rigor. Plus, as always, some #RequiredReading. Week Links is here!
Letters to Gus The Bully’s Pulpit: A Letter to Gus After an Un-Presidential Debate As we sat and watched, you turned to me and Mom and said, “Donald Trump is annoying. He won’t let Joe Biden speak.”
Week Links: 26 Sep 2020 Habits. Writing. Buddhism. Spirituality. DEIJ: the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission. Plus #RequiredReading. So much going on! Thanks for reading!
Week Links: 19 Sep 2020 RBG, teaching writing, and the creation of the ego. Lots to read in this week's links!
Writing Talking to Resistance: What It Feels Like To Be Stuck in the Middle of Your Novel Resistance looks at your creative dreams and says: “Ya know, it would be a whole lot easier to eat a box of Girl Scout cookies and binge-watch Cobra Kai.”
Week Links: 12 Sep 2020 Best Laid Plans: feeling drained. Five essentials. The death of higher ed. Remembering 9/11.
Week Links: 05 Sep 2020 New websites. A couple of stories. And some required reading. Quite a bit to chew on this week!
Teaching Deep The Courage to Begin Again We feel displaced, even in our own homes and classrooms. But our terrain has changed. (And it’s not going to change back anytime soon.) Where do we start?
Writing Struggling with Comparison Anytime we start to compare ourselves to others—whether to build ourselves up or knock ourselves down—we are wading into muddy, un-productive territory.
Letters to Gus To Whiz Among the Weeds Gus, you don’t seem in the least embarrassed about this predilection for peeing on pines, on pansies, on patches of grass, greenery, or gravel.
Writing Searching for Safety Who knew that a bathroom mirror and reframing my blurts would allow me to reclaim my inner artist?
