Tuesday - 6 days before school starts I took the hour and a half bus ride to school the next day to find a second desk in the room. Woohoo, progress has been achieved. But there was nothing on the desk. There was no computer or phone. Isabelle came in just after I got in and... Continue Reading →

Chapter III: My First Shadow Monday – 7 days until school starts It was the day of the full-district orientation and the first day I was going to Talahi. Every single teacher showed up in the Apollo gymnasium and it was agonizingly loud. I knew people, but the people I knew were all extroverted or... Continue Reading →

I have tried so many times to write about my experience teaching in the St. Cloud School District. But I'm gonna try again on here. I'm going to change names to protect the identities of others. For those of you who I knew me during that time, some of this is familiar. But you don't... Continue Reading →

I'm scared because I haven't written anything--and I mean anything--since April 2017. I have tried, but my brain can usually only get out only a few words before the chaos of brain fog starts. It all started when I moved down to Ames, Iowa summer 2016, the summer before starting my PhD in Rhetoric and... Continue Reading →

Results This tells the story of a crew who are sent in to clean out the basement of a clothing mill during the graveyard shift (late at night).  Soon, they begin encountering rats of increasing sizes until they come upon a trapdoor that leads to the rat Queen. Moments vs. Entirety This is something that... Continue Reading →

Results Jerusalem's Lot is a prologue to Salem's Lot.  It tells the story of a man who discovers a ghost (demon?) town called Jerusalem's Lot.  Epistolary Form This story is told entirely in epistolary narrative in the form of letters to Mr. Boone and journal entries of the main character's servant.  It grabs my attention... Continue Reading →

A group of kids come across a victim of the Captain Tripps or A6, in other words, the flu that kills you.  Prequel if any of you have read The Stand, you may recognize the name Captain Tripps. It is the plague that is loosed in The Stand. That makes this a prequel to the... Continue Reading →