I don’t spend nearly as much time on Teacher Twitter than I used to, but the general sentiment seems to be, “Online teaching is rough, I don’t like it, and I feel like I’m a first-year teacher.”While I am exhausted at the end of the day, despite needing to set a timer that reminds me hourly to get out of my chair and move, I genuinely enjoy my online experience. Yes, everything takes me twice as ...
I’ve begun to reexamine my taste in music after an icebreaker.Over the pandemic, I’ve attended my fair share of webinars and Zoom meetings, but this was the NCTE Sandbox: I had to apply and be accepted into this webinar, and I was supposed to share with other English educators my ideas rather than sit passively through a lecture. I had already found the cleanest area in my house, arranged the lig...
I realized in my latest post calvin post that I was being angsty, which meant I was being a little down and out. It’s a little bit of my writer brand, and I’ve mused on here before that I wonder if I’ve relegated that part of my personality to only come out in my writing. Or I somehow believe that my optimism isn’t interesting enough, isn’t cool enough, isn’t enough.I’ve always felt a little selfi...
The most insane thing I’ve done on the road is deciding to pass two coach buses on a one-lane road at 11pm in the mountains of New Hampshire. While on the other side of the road, I saw the lights of an oncoming vehicle. I, without checking my blind spot, sped up and swerved in front of the bus, praying I wouldn’t clip it. I was seconds away from a head-on collision that would have probably killed ...
I haven’t been able to find the one that crystallizes these sentiments exactly, but I’ve run across a few tweets and Instagram posts that go something like this: white people won’t be mobilized into anti-racism until they realize that whiteness is hurting them as well.James Baldwin talks about this when he talks about how white people have invented Black people to make themselves feel better. I’ve...
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