Been feeling down about two things lately – a year of poetry and poetry manuscript rejections, and the fact that the publications in print journals – this poetry I’ve written to be read and enjoyed, disappears into obscurity because, really, who reads journals? So, feeling for the first time in a long time that noContinue reading “feeling down about my poetry”
Category Archives: musings
the “free speech zone” is tough
In my class I’ve been working so hard to establish a “free speech zone,” but I think I goofed up when I pressed a student for evidence to back up some claims that police brutality is the same as it always has been. I believe I inhibited the students’ feeling of not being judged ratherContinue reading “the “free speech zone” is tough”
what does it mean to be colorblind?
When asked about their approach to race in America, many people will claim they are color-blind, meaning that issues of race simply don’t exist in their world view. At a recent diversity conference I attended I learned the following concepts to consider about the “color-blind” claim: The vast majority who claim to be color-blind orContinue reading “what does it mean to be colorblind?”
I’m back online
After battling hacking and malware injections at my old Web host, I am back online at a new host, and slowly rebuilding the site.