activism… Pineview Manor: Gentrification and Displacement in Fayetteville’s Branson Area and Savoy Heights 5 Sep 20247 Sep 2024 If you're curious about gentrification in Fayetteville, take a drive down Branson Street and Turnpike Road. The area is at the early-to-mid stages of transformation. Branson runs parallel to Simpson…
history… A Common Mailman: A Review of “Eichmann in Jerusalem’ 28 May 202428 May 2024 "The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly…
Teaching… Generative AI in the Classroom 13 May 2024 From personal observation, I'd say that roughly 15-25% of my students this semester used AI to complete most or all of an assignment. By casually skimming, I can usually tell…
Memoir Brokedick: A Memoir Excerpt, Part III 12 May 202412 May 2024 Now I still wear my Army-issue eyeglasses when I exercise. BCGs, Birth Control Glasses, because the idea is that no one will want to sleep with you if you’re wearing…
fiction… Arrive at the Silence of Yourself: Reading Brautigan 5 Nov 20235 Nov 2023 "The light pours itself through a small hole in the sky. I’m not very happy, but I can see how things are faraway."After he committed suicide by gunshot, it was…
activism… Collateral Damage 17 Oct 202317 Oct 2023 Yesterday in class we were discussing the differences between traditional media (TV, newspapers, radio, etc.) and new media (social media, podcasts, blogs, etc.). We talked about how 9/11 might have…
activism… Banned Books 2 Oct 20233 Oct 2023 The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 was met by my students with tepid interest at first. In the characters they sometimes saw themselves, a parent, a sibling, or a…
Teaching… Public Funds, Private Schools 21 Sep 202321 Sep 2023 On Glensford Drive here in Fayetteville one could be forgiven for not even noticing Montclair Elementary School, lost as it is in the enormous shadow of Berean Baptist Church. Across…
Uncategorized “From Yale to Jail” and Radical Opportunity 13 Sep 202313 Sep 2023 "The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism." - Martin Luther King, Jr. For anyone whose heart is broken daily, as mine…
Uncategorized Brokedick: A Memoir Excerpt, Part II 11 Sep 2023 Part I can be found here. “Runner!” He hadn’t intended to run. He was just standing outside the door of the barracks on the stoop where all of us sometimes,…
An Unhappy Consciousness 