Something Beautiful About UsSomething Beautiful About Us (originally published October 2018; updated Jan. 16, 2020) In his 1955 book God's Country and Mine: A...
Flashback/Flash-ForwardFacebook. 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...
Stories and the Lives They Save(Note to readers: The following was part of my presentation at the 2018 Fox Cities Book Festival, a session bearing the same title as...
CompassionCompassion Spring break this year was early and brief for Luxemburg-Casco, the district where I teach, but it wasn’t without special...
The Meadow: A Critical Introduction“Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we’ve all been there.” Michael Herr, Dispatches In my Advanced Placement Literature and Composition course at...
Two KingdomsOver the last week, I’ve been giving considerable thought to the themes that motivate my forthcoming novel: the far-reaching (and often...
KinshipWhen scrolling down the homepage of my site, some of you might wonder about the grainy photograph alongside the quote from Tim O’Brien’s...
Finding Order in ChaosMy AP Lit students have just begun reading one of my favorite novels, Don DeLillo's White Noise. After reading the first fifty pages,...