A graphic novel legacy has ended for me. The very first comic series that I have ever read has laid to rest all of its characters, lea...

There's a month of writing insanity. It happens in November when the doldrums of winter begin to rear its ugly head. It happens right...

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Prologue We start with the delicious summer soundtrack of crickets in the background and the "aaaahhh's" of the chorus. Re...

It was toward the end of my first year of teaching. Things were going well. I was helping students make the ugliest yearbook ever (not on...

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I have a wooden nameplate on my desk that says my name and congratulates me for coaching for ten years. My students look at it like it ...

Let's begin this mega-blockbuster directed by Jerry Bruckheimer with a prologue. "Once upon a time, dinosaurs ruled the earth,...

The minute the school year ended, it felt like I had just stepped off a roller coaster. "Did I just do that?" I asked myself. ...

Let's try this again, shall we? Before you go and enjoy your barbecue and pool (or sprinkler), let me just blabber for a bit. Las...