Doldrums
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Cassette Tape Player
I drafted, revised, and submitted a poem called “I Want a Walkman” earlier this year. I see it as a love letter to my youth and the cassette tape player attached to my hip. Maybe Shaun’s ever-growing fascination with retro media (he requests vinyl records for gifts) inspired me to write it. Or maybe the Continue reading
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Life and Learning: A Small Update
After reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, the teaching bug has reared its ugly little head again. The teaching bug that I once forced out of my head midway through my undergraduate years after taking a sociology of education course and hating every second of it. Especially after learning the inner workings of Continue reading
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Clippings Pt. 2: Gorilla George’s
Shaun (you remember him, right?) has taken an interest in the past. Not history in the sense of historical moments that made it into the textbooks, but the hidden stories in the community around him. His most recent interest is Gorilla George’s, an “indoor amusement park” that was big in the 90s. It was the Continue reading
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The Political Animal
“I am a political animal,” Neve says to me. They sit cross -legged on the love seat, coffee mug in hand, a magazine propped up with their knee. Their focus is on whatever article they’re reading. Maybe something political. “What does that mean?” I ask. “You’ll see,” they tell me. “You’ll see.” The Things Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 