Why I Threw Away My Rubrics

I have a rubric that took over ten years of teaching college English to develop. Want to see it?

The journey through a PhD program: perspective from a recent graduate

Trying To Make Sense Of The 2007 Browns

How did a team, that had a Derek Anderson at the helm, go 10–6 and be the last Browns team in nine years to have a winning record?

The Barista

a pumpkin spice poem in the style of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”

On Tim Burton, Fanfiction, and Little Sisters

Black Representation Matters

Review of a Carnival Cruise to Ensenada: A Soliloquy of Madness and Buffets

I saw (most of) “Birth of A Nation” so you don’t have to

Even when removed from the narrative of its creator, the film does not stand on its own and is little more than sexist trauma porn.

People Inc’s Top Ten List for Marketing a “People-y” Company (a ‘real’ Parody)

PSL: What Are You Really Drinking?

If you don’t know, now you know.

Escalator Etiquette, Or: Why Don’t People Have Manners???

(145) In Praise of Editing

I mean, but fuck editing tho.

Team North America is What Hockey Needs

North America is the talk of the hockey world. Though they won’t make it out of the preliminary rounds, their impact on the tournament will leave an impression on…

Sex Tapes And Presidential Campaigns: A Brief History

Office Emailese Field Guide

Oh, internal emails. The subtext. The redundancy. The passive aggressive CC-ing. In case your total immersion…

Threesome. An extended pessimist portraiture.

And it’s not even if we stare at the same sky anymore…

I’m an awful person behind the wheel

Not everyone, but a lot of people I know are angry drivers. Myself included. It’s hard to…

For the Olympics to survive it must change starting right now

Current Top Fears

1. updating iOS
2. death of everyone I love
3. misjudging if someone is close enough…