The Problem of Audience and Purpose

In my last Stories from School post of the year, I explain why every teacher should take time to write about teaching:  http://www.storiesfr...

Hope won't let go of my neck. Find out what I mean by reading my newest Stories from School blog. http://www.storiesfromschoolaz.org/201...

Suicide.  The cliched territory of "troubled teens" and a horror of a topic for any writing teacher.  In the past year alone I ha...

I feel like all the blogs I'm writing lately are crap. Usually, my mantra of William Stafford's advice to keep my standards low and...

I've felt a little hindered lately in what I post here. I just removed a downright angry post from over a year ago, and I find myself w...