teaching - the space in between

08 Nov 2025 8 min read

How to Keep Enough of Yourself Together When the Rest of You is Breaking Apart at the Seams

I do remember trying to describe to friends at the time what it felt like: it felt like I was a raw, exposed, bloody and pulsing nerve ending. One that everyone could see. And when beheld, my psyche felt the whole of the world backing away...

30 Sep 2025 9 min read

What Happens in the Classroom

Writing about teaching is like dancing about a government shutdown.

28 Jun 2025 12 min read

A Different Metaverse: the stories that contact sheets tell

I started thinking about contact sheets anew when I came across these remarkable contacts from Graciela Iturbide's work in Juchitán in 1970, of one of her most famous images, a woman selling iguanas in the market.

23 May 2025 7 min read

When the Teaching Teaches You

It’s the weekend before Memorial Day, it’s my daughter’s last day of elementary school, my grades are in and graduation has come and gone. 16 weeks of teaching people how

09 Feb 2025 9 min read

Teaching as Resistance

I view my role as an educator as one of the primary forms of resistance that I can practice every day and with the greatest amount of reach and impact.