Something Beautiful About Us (originally published October 2018; updated Jan. 16, 2020) In his 1955 book God's Country and Mine: A...

Facebook. Whether you love it or hate it, it's been woven into the fabric of our lives in a very real way, and while some people have...

(Note to readers: The following was part of my presentation at the 2018 Fox Cities Book Festival, a session bearing the same title as...

Compassion Spring break this year was early and brief for Luxemburg-Casco, the district where I teach, but it wasn’t without special...

“Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we’ve all been there.” Michael Herr, Dispatches In my Advanced Placement Literature and Composition course at...

Over the last week, I’ve been giving considerable thought to the themes that motivate my forthcoming novel: the far-reaching (and often...

When scrolling down the homepage of my site, some of you might wonder about the grainy photograph alongside the quote from Tim O’Brien’s...

My AP Lit students have just begun reading one of my favorite novels, Don DeLillo's White Noise. After reading the first fifty pages,...