The Problem of Audience and Purpose

I love our department chairperson.  I love my colleagues.  We are so awesome and powerful, and we mean so well.  And we would never deliber...

Freshman commits suicide. Teachers are asked to read aloud official announcement that he has "died at home" over the weekend. ...

This is sort of a follow up from my previous Seaside reveries. Haven't been sleeping well.  And when I'm trying to relax at nig...

Many of my classes will be participating in one form or another in The Big Read, sponsored by Kore Press and NEA . The Big Read is a ...

Thinking about my role as a teacher after the news that yet another of our students committed suicide over the weekend, a freshman. Not one ...