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The Gift of Reading: Romancing the Fruitcake—A Tale of Two Genres
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For the past two weeks on my morning runs, I’ve been listening to the podcast Christmas Wars: A Very Merry Rivalry on the battle for Christmas movie...
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The Gift of the Math Guy
Before transitioning away from life as a public school educator, I worked as the academic trainer for English and social studies in a large, urban...
The Gift of Reading: We Three Books
On the day after state testing, one of my sophomores burst into the room and announced: “Mr. G, I used rule of three on my essay.” It was a proud...
The Gift of Reading: Of Authors, Words, and Magic
For most of the past year and half, I have spent most of my waking hours querying or obsessing over querying literary agents for my young adult novel...
Getting Nothing for Someone
Just last week, my oldest son asked me what I wanted for Christmas. My answer? Nothing.
Native American Heritage Month: An Indigenous Cut to the Bone
In recent months I learned, along with others around the world, of the horrific stories of the mass unmarked grave sites of Indigenous, or...
Native American Heritage Month: The Removed
The way authors structure their books is sometimes jaw-dropping. So impressive that by the end you hug it tight, knowing it taught you something, or...
Myth with a Side of Mashed Potatoes
Like most kids ushered though elementary school in the days when the Charlie Brown holiday specials aired on television once a year and if you missed...
My Red Pen Is Dusty, and I’m Glad
Over the course of my career as a middle school ELA teacher, I’ve graded more writing pieces than I can count. I’ve graded late into the night, on...
Native American Heritage Month: Identity & Storytelling
Many lessons ran through my mind while reading There There by Tommy Orange. We could talk about the parallel plot text structure; we could talk about...