Today, I had the privilege of working again with other leaders from my Just Schools Cohort. Together, we’re working across districts to advance equity and justice in schools. This team of professionals…they’re amazing. And even on days where I feel discouraged about my own work, and my own progress, they are there to remind meContinue reading “Poetry Month Day 10: The Work is Great”
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Poetry Month Day 9: Humor, Badly Timed
Humor.It’s all timing and audience. The feeling of having a jokethat is absolutelyhystericalbut having to one to tell it towell that’s rough. I mean, I knowwhat I’m saying is WILDLY inappropriate.Maybe even dark.It’s alsoreally freakin’ FUNNY. And I can’t even laugh as loud as I would if I heard that joke myself because who laughsContinue reading “Poetry Month Day 9: Humor, Badly Timed”
Poetry Month Day 8: On Cockroaches
When you get down to it,We really should likeCockroachesMore than we do.They are evolution’s rock stars,Shining beacons ofPersistence and carrying onAnd all that jazz. I should offer nothing but respectButThe very thought of them scuttling(I can’t picture them doing anything but scuttling)On floorsOver countersInMyPANTRYIs enough to send mePast the heebiesInto the full-on jeebies AndI knowContinue reading “Poetry Month Day 8: On Cockroaches”
Poetry Month Day 3: On Birthdays
Birthdaysshould be markedby cake and ice cream,Instagram posts and Facebook wishesOr texts, the kind with heartsAnd balloonsAnd silly memes butthis time next time every time I’d settleforanything that fills the absence. I draft and scribble out poems in my head: a catalog of today’s distractions our conversation in the sun today the four times IContinue reading “Poetry Month Day 3: On Birthdays”
Poetry Month Day 1: Untitled
is what you call a poemwhen you sit down to writeand the words flutterevery which-waydespite yourpleas toland is when you have just wrestledmetaphor to withininches of its life,nailing it downtying itto a chair* is for words wriggling too fastwhen you try to capturethem, but they keep onsquirming away,writhing outof yourhands so you just shrug yourContinue reading “Poetry Month Day 1: Untitled”
Slice of Life Challenge 2021 Day 31: Begin, End
Today marks the final day of the Slice of Life challenge. I’ve deeply enjoyed the challenge of writing every day this month. I’ve grown as a writer and as a human in ways I’ll still be thinking about for weeks to come. I tried to capture how I’m feeling on the last day of this challenge. IContinue reading “Slice of Life Challenge 2021 Day 31: Begin, End”
Slice of Life 2021, Day 30: Here I Am
Today marks Day 30 of the Slice of Life challenge. Join me as I work to write every day in March – and beyond! For T. You inspire me. In the middle of a highly scheduled day In the middle of a hard-fought moment of plan time In the middle of a to-do list that has grownContinue reading “Slice of Life 2021, Day 30: Here I Am”
Slice of Life 2021 Day 17: Lucky
Today marks Day 17 of the Slice of Life challenge. Join me as I work to write every day in March – and beyond! You can keep your corned beefAnd your cabbageAnd your potatoesAnd your soda breadAnd your whisky Never mind about those shamrocksOr leprechaunsOr paradesOr wearing of the green The luck I findComes to meIn tokensContinue reading “Slice of Life 2021 Day 17: Lucky”
Slice of Life Day 2021 Day 13: If Only
Today marks Day 13 of the Slice of Life challenge. Join me as I work to write every day in March – and beyond! If only, last year, as we hastily made copiesand gathered booksand held cramming sessionson how to use Google meetwe had stopped and sat on the floorin a circlethe kind of circlewhere sometimes youContinue reading “Slice of Life Day 2021 Day 13: If Only”
Slice of Life 2021 Day 11: In Awe
I saw the cover of the bookand snortedand huffedand rolled my eyes because who needs an entire bookto tell themto look aroundin wonderand awe at the world around them who needs 192 pageson a Kindleto tell themto look up at the sky and then i thought, uh-oh. there are people in this worldwho need anContinue reading “Slice of Life 2021 Day 11: In Awe”
Soapbox: The Way I see Things 