Our expectations are constructed through our values systems, upbringing, and past experiences, and can be very different from those of others. These expectations can become
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#alabamagood
I’ve written more times than I count about my home state’s negative side: poverty, politics, you know. This week, that doggone Roy Moore was at it
How it feels to be wrong
When I first watched this TED Talk, “On being wrong,” given by Kathryn Schulz, it was like an epiphany. Schulz explains here how we react to
The Juncture of Verisimilitude and Me
This essay, The Juncture of Verisimilitude and Me, was originally written for the Teachers & Writers Collaborative’s Bechtel Prize competition in 2014. The essay didn’t win, and
A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #37
“[Jesus] invites us all beyond our narrow self-understanding— that egocentric sense of ourselves based on ethnic, cultural and national distinctions. Until these are transcended, we
