When the Holidays Start*
This year, the holiday season didn’t really start for me until yesterday, Monday, December 17. I admit that I was pushing it aside. But I also had fully acceptable reasons […]
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The Radical Resistance behind the Process
Yesterday, I had two of my writing classes, one first-year, and one advanced, write reflectively in class about an obvious idea we engaged for the whole semester: writing is a […]
Revaluing the Personal
Every semester, my first-year writing students begin the class by writing a personal narrative. Of course, for the last four years of high school, they were told that they should not […]
Focus on Authors: June Foster and A Harvest of Blessings
Prolific Christian Romance author June Foster has a new release out this month. Her work focuses on the power of love to effect change in even the most unlikely situations, […]
An Eccentric’s View of a Vacation
One thing we can all agree on: vacations are conventional. Everyone knows them, and everyone takes them, often to places that are especially designated as vacation destinations. Northern Europeans spend […]