Uncategorized A More Open Door 1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023 In January, I presented “A More Open Door: Teaching & Advising Undocumented Students” to faculty and staff at my college. The focus of my presentation was to highlight the unique…
Uncategorized Fayetteville Tech in Context: Updated 17 Aug 202217 Aug 2022 One of my first major academic labors in my career at FTCC, the presentation has now been updated to reflect 2020 census data and other changes. The updated version can…
Uncategorized Time after Time: Overlay Photography 24 Jul 20211 Mar 2023 A gallery of past on present Fayetteville, North Carolina. Project begun summer 2018 and will continue to be updated. Winslow Street looking north toward the Amtrak Station, 1942 and 2018.…
Uncategorized Learning to Kill: Rosemary Daniell’s poem “Fort Bragg” and the murder of Vanessa Guillen 13 Jul 2021 While some of Rosemary Daniell’s 1988 book Fort Bragg and Other Points South is written in a haze of sensuality and playful lust, the poem “Fort Bragg” prefigures the environment…
Uncategorized The Accident: Flash Fiction 12 Dec 202024 Jul 2021 They stayed in the house. Columns of brick at intervals keeping it off the ground. They stayed in the house. Elijah didn’t need to see it to know it was…
Uncategorized Burden 17 Nov 2020 Last year I completed the first draft, a very rough first draft, of a stageplay. I have no real intention of seeing it produced, much less sending it out for…
history… Trouble at Bragg 29 Jun 20208 Jul 2021 Night of Terror Early in the morning of 6 August 1941, 500 Black soldiers lay on the ground of the prison yard at Fort Bragg. For five hours they were…
activism… Diary of the Nazi Years 1 Jun 20191 Mar 2023 I'm reading the 1933-1945 diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German academic of Jewish descent. Though a Christian for practical purposes, Klemperer's "ethnic" Judaism and his detailed, personal writing make his…
An Unhappy Consciousness 