About a year and a half ago I began this blog primarily as a literary resource for students when I was teaching in El Salvador. I posted on the blog, but it was usually in a literary or educational capacity: a creative attempt to engage with my students. When I moved back to theContinue reading “Till We Have Faces: My Blog’s New Look”
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Tolkien, Fairy Stories, and Sub-creation
I was first introduced to Tolkien’s The Hobbit when I was a pre-teen. At that point I was not familiar with The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings trilogy (the movies had not yet premiered). I had the joy and privilege to experience this story with a blank slate, knowing nothing about the book besides the cover image. Thus IContinue reading “Tolkien, Fairy Stories, and Sub-creation”
Follow New Instagram Account: A Little Literary Fun on the Side
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door…” “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” “To be, or not to be…” Some famous lines ofContinue reading “Follow New Instagram Account: A Little Literary Fun on the Side”
An Open Letter to My Graduating Seniors
It’s here. You’ve finally made it to the end. I’m proud of you. And I’m not saying I’m proud of you because every single moment of every class period you acted like perfect little angels (we all know that’s not the truth). I’m saying it because…well…it’s easy to say now that you’re gone. Ha! JustContinue reading “An Open Letter to My Graduating Seniors”
Self-Realization
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves. Zora Neale Hurston’s character, Janie, said this at the end of Their Eyes Were Watching God. This next week is my last before receiving my third degree, this one in literature (the previousContinue reading “Self-Realization”
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