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During my last year of teaching, I read William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land with my sophomore American Literature students. It was, as the author
Like many children raised in the 1960’s, I was taught that guns were for soldiers and police officers and certainly not for play. My brothers
There’s a scene in Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, where Stephen Kumalo and his guide Msimangu, both Black pastors in search of Kumalo’s lost
I won’t forget that first week of remote teaching during the early days of the pandemic. Behind closed doors, I spoke into my laptop from
With thanks to Wendell Berry What if diplomas were earned for the seconddefinition of the verb“graduate”: “to change graduallyby degrees”? What if teachers graded using,say,
“Here’s a truth, friends,”He said before leaving:“Anyone with faithwill do greater thingsthan these when I goto the Father.” Hyperbole. It had to be.Greater things thanwater
A sudden itch for woodcraft, Ihead for the garage, take twobead-board doors from a dustystack of kitchen-cupboard pieces rescued from a garage sale,the old spruce
