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From Classroom to Community: The Intersection of Culture, History, and Humanity
In June, I had the opportunity to serve as a guest panelist for a Student to Student Coordinators Conference, alongside two high school educators from private institutions. As a public middle school teacher, I offered a perspective shaped by different classroom...
Why Summer Is My Season—for Staying Indoors
Living in St. Louis means enduring brutal weather—freezing winters and blistering summers.Sure, other cities deal with this too, but St. Louis weather hits different. Maybe it’s the whiplash-inducing shifts from day to day, or the humid heat that clings like a second...
Fusing Stories Together
Ten years ago this month—on Tuesday, May 19th, 2015—I underwent spinal fusion surgery. It was the second major surgery of my life. The first had come nearly a decade earlier, in late 2006, when I had an emergency appendectomy. That experience was frightening, sudden,...