I’ve always been a sucker for a good romantic comedy, full of angst and ending with happily-ever-after. It’s just in my genes. Sometimes I wonder if my love of fairy tales and happily-ever-afters are part of my search for hope for myself–or maybe it’s the storytelling. Like many things, it’s probably a combination.
This past semester, [...]

I‘m worried. Actually, I’m scared.
I am taking a break from my usual fluffy yet thoughtful posts this week to talk about something on my mind. It is important to me that my blog not become a place of political ranting; there are enough political blogs out there! Unfortunately, though, I cannot discuss all of the [...]

While tutoring freshman English composition students last year, and participating in the English tutoring seminar, I learned pretty quickly that when a student, or a writer in general, has a contradiction in their writing, it usually isn’t really a contradiction–it is where the interesting part of their argument lies, and it needs to be further [...]