January 2012
15 posts
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Christopher Mccandless (via light-essence)
For Yale.
The Look:
Neatest thing happens this time of the year. From a place of comfort & continual patterns inside these classroom walls, these children know me and I know them to such an extent that on a cold & bright Thursday in January, I can extinguish an argument over a poorly placed bathroom in a floorplan drawn to analyze the personification in Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come...
On taking your own advice and realizing you've got...
The older this kid gets, the more I realize how much she teaches me.
Hi Ms. Solesbee! It has been so long since I have written anything to you; life has just been busy. Molly and I talked about you today, and Dominique and Anel mentioned you too last week, at different times even! After two years you have become one of our main memories from middle school: that is proof of the huge difference...
“Your teachers didn’t just appear in front of you in a classroom....”
– Columbia City Mayor Steve Benjamin.
On the day of his State of the City Address, Mayor Steve Benjamin took two hours to come and speak to our children at length about finding their passion and using it as a tool to change the world. He echoed every facet of my own teaching philosophy and...
An internet never forgets:
I wrote this in June of 2008. My father died unexpectedly in October of 2009. I haven’t read it since I wrote it, and didn’t breathe for the all too quick minutes to took me to read it again now. He was this-and this is mine. If ever there was a reason to start writing again—what am I recording right now that won’t be mine in a year’s time? Everything. Nothing.
And...
After the Valley:
Recently, I interviewed for a myriad of summer positions to get me out of this town & the comfort zone that has, despite its best intentions, nearly strangled me with its desire for conformity to a suburban standard I just can’t get down with. I was restless.
I bought the house. The car. The always overcompensatingly sweet rescue dog & cat-like creature who’s origins may be...