I saw a man in the grocery store, and if I had the time and the reason, I could thoroughly and exhaustively explain why I disliked him based entirely on how he looked at the portabella mushrooms. I could have taken him aside by the flower arrangements nobody has ever bought outside of an emergency, …
Things I want to do this summer
Aside from how pointy and triangular my nose is, I only really have one thing in common with birds: we both care quite a lot about the season. Summer is coming, and with it will be the chance to live as I want without the interference of cold precipitation or homework or wet socks or …
Regarding Small Stolen Fruits and Summer Teaching
Kumquats are tiny citrus fruits that my brother and I used to steal from our neighbor’s front yard during summer break. This was when we were children and theft was more cute and less depresentative of an ill-formed risk/reward center of the brain. Kumquats and theft are what I used to think about when summer …
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Eavesdropping on a Date?
I’m a nosy person, just going to get that totally undeniable fact out of the way. I like eavesdropping and staring and learning about lives that may never intersect with mine again. It’s addictive. I’m stuck in my head all the time, but when I listen to someone else’s life it’s a pretty welcome vacation. …
I’m Sorry, but Someone Needs to Defend Homework
I’m going to go ahead and disappoint my teenage self, and not for the reasons I usually do. I’ve heard a lot of students and a lot of people totally unaffiliated with teaching criticize homework. I’ve heard my students whine when I assign them reading to be done outside the 200 minutes I see them …
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