Dirty Boots: Grow up.

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. Every school year, in my twelfth grade English class, we have a few weeks after finishing the Middle Ages and before exams. Two weeks is too little time to start on the Renaissance, which we would then finish in January and February, so I have them read some good current journalism about what it means (and what it takes) to get a college… Read more Dirty Boots: Grow up. →