July 19, 2019
A Day in the Life of a Teacher-Writer-Parent
[Pictured above: The Teacher-Writer-Parent wearing the huge, blueberry-like “Thinking Cap” her son made to “help her think of really good writing.”] 5:30 a.m.—Woken up by the five-year-old boy sitting on […]
December 20, 2015
I Am George Washington Gómez: On Works of Significant Worth and Importance
I remember the time I brought Américo Paredes’s novel George Washington Gómez into my AP English classroom; my teacher looked at the cover, frowned and asked: “Okay… So is […]