When I was in junior high school, I started reading Harlequin and Silhouette romances. I’d get my $20 weekly allowance and purchase those...

Lately, my sister and I have been playing this one-upmanship game: which of us has the dumbest governor in America. Although I was born...

While part of me watches America rage with this seemingly unstoppable virus, there is this other part of me that can’t get November out...

​Lately, I have been seriously contemplating a move to Africa. I haven’t selected the nation to consider my future home, but I have...

Recently, I read about Tarana Burke when Time released their Person of the Year. The magazine praised women called the Silence Breakers,...

One of the Pep Talks for NaNoWriMo came from Dean Koontz, and boy was it timely. The other day, I heard some negative feedback about...

On the way to Orlando for Thanksgiving, my daughter and I stopped in St. Augustine for a little sight-seeing through history. I needed a...

Lately, I have been reflecting on my long, exhausting teaching career. I started teaching because I needed a job. I had left University...

Recently I assigned my students a reading and writing assignment centered around the movement that has evolved from Colin Kaepernick's...

I naively believed that American society had progressed far enough from the 1950's that George Wallace could never become president...

Lately, I've been thinking about my days at the University of Florida. From the time I was in 8th grade, I knew that I wanted to go to...

The other day I was looking at a photo of my 8 year old daughter and I noticed how much lighter her skin was in the photo, so I turned to...

So this week, I watched in stunned horror as Karen Handel garnered more votes than Joe Ossoff in Georgia's special election. I am...

I guess you can see that it took me a year to figure out what to write next? (Note the question mark). I've been a little confused...

Soooooo........ In two weeks, I am heading down to Alabama for an NEH Civil Rights Landmark Workshop. I am incredibly excited about...

What if teaching is not the right profession for me?

The frustrating aspect about blogging--one that I did not anticipate--was deciding what I would write about. I want to do a follow-up on...

No matter what I write, I have to channel Steve Biko and "write what I like."