It has been a roller coaster of a week. While I transitioned roles and institutions almost 3 months ago, this was a week of first as a program chair — first program meeting, first time finding out that an adjunct faculty member was not able to teach the week before classes started with full sections […]
Month: August 2020
Beauty in the Brokenness
Thank you. Dozens of you, my close friends and family, my colleagues and acquaintances, Twitter folx who have never met me, held me up today. I felt your uplift. I needed every bit of it. The day is over and I have a huge headache. I have a huge heartache. I feel the tears that […]
Dear Mr. Ali
Dear Mr. Ali, Mark, last night when I saw Maria’s tribute post to you, with pictures of her senior English class, saying that she was dedicating this teaching year to you, I didn’t want to believe it. Then I saw Nicole’s tribute post. Then Colleen private messaged me. I posted on social media, but thought […]
Grace and Peace Be With You
My son starts high school on Wednesday. My daughter starts kindergarten on Thursday. When my daughter was a newborn 5 years ago, and I was still on maternity leave, home with her in all of her infant glory, I thought about this time. I anticipated it would be hard, emotional, full of excitement and conflicted […]
Embracing Agency
I am doing a lot of learning and unlearning lately. In my last post, I wrote about the importance of my son being seen and recognized as a leader, something that I worked so hard for all of my life, but which felt so elusive in my youth. Following that post, he received word that […]