Penance

I’ve been to a lot of trainings to learn “what the students’ lives are like.” These presenters are usually people who don’t spent 8 hours a day, every day, with students. Instead, they are university-level experts in cultural differences and student psychology. Sure, when you start teaching, you should learn about the students you’re working […]

Clashing

If John Waters can be John Waters, I feel honor-bound to be myself. I’ve just been enjoying his book Role Models, although I’ve never had any interest in his films. He has a chapter on fashion that drove me to wear lemon and khaki. I just felt like it. Later in the book, he has […]

Patience

One reason it’s good to have less money is that it forces you to be more patient. A couple of weeks ago, my laptop took a turn for the worse. Since I tripped over the cord, getting a good connection between the outlet and the computer is a tricky business. Sometimes it requires repeated twisting […]

On Defense

When I was a teenager and I got hauled along to this little church, I pretty much wanted to die. The whole experience embarrassed me beyond belief. It was a lot of stupid people with uneducated, loopdy-loo wacky ideas and clapping by people who probably liked to burn crosses and gay people and thought humans […]