State of Mind:

Winter Break is here!  There's not much winter in Nebraska, but I'm soon heading North and there's snow up there.  I can't w...

There's a redhot ball of grief in the center of my chest right now, grown prickles overnight, an absolute inability to...

It's the dark of the morning, the first real cold day we've had in Lincoln thus far, and I seem to have forgotten what sev...

It's been a while since I've posted--and I realize I've posted nothing as we've been reading Sarah Vowell's Assassinatio...

On this day of observation, it's important to remember this day, 11 November 1918, the end of the worst war the world had ever...

Dear Gram, I just got back from voting in the 2012 election and as I colored in my little circles for my choices for president, federal le...

Seriously.  Getting my students actively connected to the larger world around them, the world outside their classroom, is truly one of the...

As a general rule, I stay away from political topics and such in my classrooms.  I don't like to teach truly controversial topics, I don...