Thought Stories

One summer I took a reading class at another high school (not my own) in which I read a book a day for 8 weeks--the best summer of my...

How do I know I am a writer when I haven't been writing much (since the pandemic, since November, since 2012, since...)? First, I'm not...

What a year it turned out to be. Everything I thought I knew changed. How I taught--that changed. How I managed my work--that changed....

My dissertation, which I researched over five years, was arguably really about war and poetry and history. I would not have characterized...