As “Station Eleven” ambled to its closing, one of the most real couplets of dialogue closed the show and absolutely stopped me … and has also been haunting my thoughts since I saw it. It comes after Kirsten and Jeevan have reunited, something we almost didn’t get from the show…

This isn’t a list that is about the best movies or anything like that. These are just films I love. Or I have friends where a lot of our friendship is built around it. Or a film I quote incessantly. This is a group of movies that I didn’t…

Since it’s Valentine's Day, I figured I’d start this thing I read about a couple of weeks ago. I’d link to the article where I read this to show some love to the writer … but I can’t find the link (Edit: I found it! Read here). This will be…

One of the podcasts I listen to irregularly is “The Daily.” It’s a great podcast and Michael Barbaro does amazing work. But it has gotten to a point, for me, not the podcast, that I’m reading enough about the topics they usually address, and sometimes enough is enough. But the…

It’s the 25th anniversary of the school I teach at being open this year. Yesterday my editors were in the formative stages of planning an issue of our newspaper to commemorate this august achievement of existence. They happened upon the idea of doing the issue in the format of the…

It’s been a rough go as an educator these past couple years, last year definitely the most trying, difficult, frustrating, heartbreaking year of my career. The 21–22 school year has been better, but still filled with its overly fair share of struggles. Going back into the classroom in a district…

I just sneezed. Am I sick? And now my nose is runny. Should I go the urgent care? The ER? My son is sniffling. My wife coughed (she’s got the allergies). My daughter has a headache. Call the pediatrician. The ambulance. The hospital. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! To be clear, there’s an…

There’s presently a myriad number of stories being published about the problems facing American society and education, mainly with theses focusing on the convergence of a two-year-old pandemic and an educational system that was already showing significant cracks in its foundation. Like this one. Or this one. …

This was a weird year for me in my photography. I certainly shot a lot more than in 2020, but for the first time in a long time, I didn’t have lots of interest in picking up the camera as frequently as I have in the past. …