The United States begins its summer season a little ahead of the solstice with Memorial Day weekend. The end of May also brings my year-long writing experiment to a close. Thank you so much for reading and learning with me since last May. I’ll be writing again in a few weeks. Subscribers will hear first what’s next […]
The latest from Standing Rock
The story of the Dakota Access Pipeline continues: The pipeline is planned from Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to Illinois, where it would tie in with an existing pipeline to refineries in the Midwest and on the Gulf coast. The project was never examined under an environmental impact review but instead was approved under […]
More: Race and politics of place
Monday’s work on The Game That Shall Not Be Named, colonialism, augmented reality tech, and lineages of state violence went further afield than I expected. As sites like the Holocaust Museum and Arlington National Cemetery begin to push back against the game’s boundaries, there are plenty of thoughtful, worth-reading articles about the broader connections and the […]
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Happy New Year (Farewell, 2015)
My last subscribers-only newsletter for 2015 is in Mailchimp’s publication queue right now. I’ve shared some of my lessons-learned from the year that’s past and I’m wishing all my readers and subscribers a new year of hope, expansion, and growth. If you’d like more contact from me through the year that’s just around the corner, please opt in so we can stay connected. […]
Back from the Mothership: #4C15
I’m back from the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication convention, a 5-day trip with the academic community I was last immersed in in 2012. I caught up with colleagues I’d left behind, and reconnected with others who were years ahead of me and now teach as tenured faculty members at universities across the South and Midwest. I also […]
Schedule: Back from Napa and heading to Tampa
I’m spending this March bouncing between the two coasts of the US for three projects including a film event, national communication conference, and a non-profit board meeting at the end of the month. This means I’ll be away from home for my birthday, but I’ll also be in the thick of more than 3,100 highly engaged writing, communication, and […]