Remember, I was fat. And I was totally fine with that. After the Doughboy, I kept finding ways to own, and even to enjoy, my …
Summer: How to Lose Sixty Pounds (and why you might miss them)
Cameras On? Pedagogy Authority, and Equity in Zoom-Era Classrooms
Cameras On? Link Published in Follow the Leader: Equity and Social Justice, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2021
Sophomore: How to Live Through History
I’ve been writing these essays throughout 2020 and 2021. If you were a kid of any age during that time, you probably heard this a …
Junior: How to Dance
At my high school, junior year was mythic. In a bad way. Seniors warned that junior year might break us, with its avalanche of AP …
Senior: How to See Highs and Lows
On December 11, 2003, I got into Harvard. Maybe you’re impressed, maybe you’re groaning. Either reaction is fine with me. Harvard both is and is …
Lessons: Epilogue
There will be higher highs and lower lows than this. Fourteen years after Ms. P says this, I sit at my desk in the Principal’s …
Pedagogy and The Crown
Earlier this month, I finally listened to my mother’s good advice: I started to watch The Crown. I tore through the first season, delighting in the happy …
Inauguration Day 2021: Looking Forward and Back
Context On January 20, 1993, Maya Angelou spoke this stanza as part of her inaugural poem, “On the Pulse of the Morning”: Lift up your …
On Specificity
I’m a huge tennis fan. During one of my recent meanderings through Youtube clips (best tennis rallies… Serena Williams championship points… Borg-McEnroe tiebreak, complete), I …
On a hike
I found myself scrambling up the mountain, mindless. My fingers and feet hunted rocky crevices without me. My thighs and calves were independent agents, too, …