Joel MendezHuman Nature & the Art of LyingIf you’re careful, you can learn a lot about the world just by observing it. And no, I don’t mean that in the philosophically trivial…Jul 9Jul 9
Joel MendezRevisiting “Reading for Survival”When I was first preparing to teach English to incoming Freshmen (Freshpersons?!), somewhere in a university on the East coast, I came…Jul 9Jul 9
Joel MendezWriter’s BlockFor years I taught my students that there was no such thing as “writer’s block”. I explained how writing is more like sculpting. An…Jul 5Jul 5
Joel MendezLessons LearnedMy beautiful son has autism. The non-verbal, walks on his toes, sensitive to loudness/pitch/brightness/temperature kind of autism. He is my…Jul 5Jul 5
Joel MendezHomelessness & LiminalismAfter about a month and half of surviving on the street (there is no ‘living’ on the street, I’m afraid), my wife prevailed upon me to…Jul 1Jul 1