Still Learning to Teach from the Air We Breathe

The shift from summer to fall always seems to be a subjective one. Especially because I live in Southern California, the change has less to do with the weather now […]

Why Writers should Stop Worrying about Greatness

In a recent conversation, a friend mentioned that Stephen King, in his memoir on writing, acknowledges that there are great writers and then there are good writers. My friend correctly […]

For Fiction, Dropping the Royal “We”

I was an undergraduate when my ethics professor taught me to stop using “they” when describing collective behaviors. He did this in his written response to my ethics paper on […]