Then Don’t Write
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it. -Anais Nin This is […]
Communication
Sanitize and Simplify
In my blog post “Dick and Jane Go to the Homeless Shelter,” I wrote about the methods that educational publishers use to sanitize their books and articles, usually so as to not offend the […]
The Power of Voice
Let’s be honest: when it comes to publishing, most academic specialties, sociology included, tend towards being dry. Papers, reports, charts, graphs, data, innumerable footnotes, and complicated academic vocabularies dominate. Granted, there are those people who […]
Don’t Worry, Kids, It’ll Only Be Hot for a Little While…
As I noted in my previous post (“Dick and Jane Visit the Homeless Shelter”), Texas is one of the largest purchasers of textbooks in the country, owing to its sheer size. And as a […]
Just Bleed
“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” -Red Smith For those who think that writing is easy– and for those who know that it is […]
A More Honest Story
I am so grateful to Nomad Press for letting me explore brave topics in my new book Civic Unrest: Investigate the Struggle for Social Change. This book for teenagers seeks to move beyond simply […]
Twenty-four Hours of Hurt
I left the Occupied Territory of Crimea to begin a journey of witnessing people getting hurt. It started with my taxi ride to the train station. My taxi driver, a Tatar man in his fifties, […]
On Writing and Complacency
I have become, in certain ways, a complacent writer. I have spent many years of hard work, frustration, persistence, tears, rejections, and near surrender to make a career out of my craft, […]
We Cannot Communicate!
Two days ago, all the mobile telephone numbers for the main communications company in Crimea stopped working. As if the entire network had been attacked, the only message was, “Network Unavailable.” Not even emergency calls […]
Gnostic Green 