Above: Raytheon Theater at the Patriots Hall of Fame in Foxboro MA Recently, a colleague here in Durham NC asked me if I was excited about the Super Bowl because…
Readers of this blog may recall a trip I made with other teachers and activists from Durham to work for the release of Wildin David Guillen Acosta and Yefri Sorto-Hernandez,…
The Inside-Outside Alliance in Durham is a local organization that “is primarily focused on supporting prisoners in the Durham County jail and on fighting police terrorism throughout the city.” This post…
I’ve seen a lot of people on social media giving props to Carrie Fisher for speaking out about mental illness, which wasn’t as common when she started doing it as…
ICE has recently kidnapped 5 high school students in North Carolina for deportation, one of them at Riverside High School here in Durham. Please consider calling them in Washington to…
I’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on supporting GLBTQ staff and students in Durham Public Schools at Bull McCabe’s at 427 West Main Street in downtown Durham next Tuesday,…
I was once listening to an episode of Car Talk on NPR and heard a woman call in to Click and Clack with the following dilemma: she had a Honda…
I found this on Francis Prève‘s Facebook page. To this I would add step 7, “I am awesome,” and then step 8, “Go back to step 1.” Then it would…
We’re used to thinking of problems as a word that goes hand in hand with “personal.” Of course, there are problems in our professional lives. But when we struggle with…
From “Major Aranda’s Hand,” by Alfonso Reyes: “Major Aranda suffered the loss of a hand in battle, and, unfortunately for him, it was his right hand…A delicate instrument, [the hand]…