At first I wasn’t sure what I thought of the shift from the harder, more in your face Kelis, but I can’t stop listening to Flesh Tone. The album tributes the birth of her son and departur...
Today I took the teens on our final field trip to Magic Mountain, a family entertainment park surrounded by a teal-green river littered with lost neon golf balls and cigarette butts. This group has b...
When I first joined OkCupid I actively fished, but the past few months it’s functioned mostly as a no maintenance fishing net. Maybe the rainbow fish will swim into it, but more often than not ...
Recently I decided it’s time to bite the bullet and get a second job. Student loans and aspirations to leave Ohio are looming, and since my current job doesn’t exactly bring home the vegg...
The Blurb #14: The Land of Underwater Birds - Eric Puchner on terrible titles: I’ve seen some jaw-droppingly awful titles, often from very gifted writers. And I’m not just talking about my students: ...
This morning I saw danah boyd speak at the 2010 Symposium on Youth and Social Media at the Moritz College of Law at OSU. Her keynote focused on how adults shouldn’t blame the internet and social medi...
This morning I walked out to my car to find the rear passenger window smashed in and glass smithereens all over the back seat. I called the police who redirected me to make the report on their websit...
Marine Biologist: At five years old, marine biologist = playing with dolphins. Before I viewed Florida as a humid hellhole overrun with pythons I imagined myself living by the beach and being a sort ...
Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster: Great article on how the media frames victims of disasters as criminals, primarily through labeling their attempts to get much needed supplies as ̶...
For the bulk of my time as a student I worked at a domestic violence shelter in Athens County. Once while I was working a woman staying there climbed out her window, went down the fire escape and jum...
DOWNLOAD I have an undying love for TLC that began when I bought Crazy Sexy Cool in 2nd grade from one of those BMG buy 20 CDs get 5 free catalogs. My dad almost took it away from me because he thoug...
Review of the White Album at 30 - A retrospective on The White Album by Joan Didion, a collection of autobiographical essays that grapple with the paranoia and unrest of the 1960s. The White Album gi...
Awhile ago I asked the teens to write down 15 things they’d like to do before they die. One said he wanted to be a space tourist, which goes hand in hand with his desire to make enough money starting...
Finding Dolly Freed – In 1978 Dolly Freed wrote Possum living: How to Live Well Without a Job and (Almost) No Money at age 17. The article is a retrospective of her life post jumping off the ra...
Last night around 10 I walked to the park at the end of the street to swing. My mom would be appalled if she knew I was walking around at night with headphones on. There’s something I find very stres...
For the past four months I’ve worked at an after-school program for teens staying with their families in a homeless shelter in Columbus. Imagine being 16 and getting evicted from your home. You go fr...
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