Writer * Worldbuilder * Life Coach
Election 2024: Anyone Else Ready for this to be Over?
I care about politics. I do. But I’m also ready for Christmas Break. Curling up with a book, or VR mini golf, without email nearby, without ads, and WITHOUT ELECTION COVERAGE. I don’t need to know when Donald Trump farts or what Kamala orders…
John McWhorter: A Credible Writer for Making Sense of a Complex America
One of the first discussions I have about readings with my college composition students is that two common components can get in the way of understanding new readings: 1) Vocabulary, and 2) lack of Background Knowledge. (Vocabulary being helpful explains itself, but Background Knowledge…
The Atlantic Scores Again: American Left and Centrists Can Learn from French Progressives and Centrists.
Read this story from the Atlantic’s Thomas Chatterton Williams about what happened this July in France when problems with a growing Far Right movement (think anti-immigrant, pro-business, smaller-government, but much more complex than that) threatened everything. France, at first, floundered. Then it didn’t. It…
Disinformation & Propaganda: The Issue that May Divide and Crumble the World
Maria Ressa, one of the most well known journalists from the Philippines, fighter for FACTS, and as a result, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, is sharing right now (Wednesday, April 6) about how fragile Democracy is right now. She is speaking as…
April Fool’s Day Rules
Pranks and jokes are fun. They can lead people to laughter and high emotions. But there can be a right way to create the best pranks. For those who may not be aware, April Fool’s Day every April 1st is a tradition where people…
One Professor Admits to Using Drugs and thinks Society Should Accept Some Drug Usage… (By the way, I’m not talking about me.)
Would you risk your career and respect to share something that might shift laws and public perceptions?
Race: Voices that Matter, like Halstead’s and Hutcherson’s
People often ask me where to get started to learn more about race and the situation with institutional racism in the United States. These two articles are almost always discussed in my college writing classes for a number of reasons, but not because they…
How to Respond to people Amidst a Crisis: POTOW & Let Dave Chappelle Show You
Get a message through the fire to the other side
