Betsy Devoid
On February 7, 2017, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Betsy DeVos as President Trump’s new Secretary of Education. The vote was historic, but not for a positive reason: DeVos was confirmed only because […]
On February 7, 2017, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Betsy DeVos as President Trump’s new Secretary of Education. The vote was historic, but not for a positive reason: DeVos was confirmed only because […]
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I […]
If you read the first installment of my post on collaboration, perhaps you are waiting with bated breath (or perhaps not) to find out how this new iteration of the collaborative process has been […]
Let’s face it, collaboration is one of those words that can leave a bad taste in one’s mouth. Who hasn’t had the experience, in secondary school or college, or even at work, of being given […]
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” -Ernest Hemingway on writing
I just finished rereading Virginia Woolf’s classic A Room of One’s Own. I first read this book in my early twenties, and my admiration of it was more academic than actual. I agreed with the […]
For My Dad I just wrote my father’s obituary; the first obituary I have ever written. Obituaries aren’t all that difficult to write, at first glance. Anyone who has read even a few knows […]
Today I have been struggling to write a joint blog post with Tedrowe. In the spirit of this blog, I have been striving to approach a new perspective and level of depth in writing for […]
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert Flaubert’s quote really speaks to me as I am in the process of learning a new kind of writing, […]
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 […]