Work It, Work It!
I tend to talk with my hands a lot, so I imagine this is what my students see when I lecture on Zoom.
For me, one of the best things a..
Moving Forward: Decolonizing Curriculum Within Arts Education, and Other Late Night Thoughts
I have a thesis to write and there seems to be about 8 million things I can do before even sitting down to think on whatever it is that I’..
A Look at Interfaces
As we start a new semester and have new classes it is always exciting and nerve-racking to jump in head-first with new professors and in m..
Wanting to go but not being able to leave.
Abandoned Pool in Lebanon
I’ve been away for a while now. It’s been more than a month, but I’m back. I went to Lebanon: my native coun..
Learning to Love the Impossible
Eddie Izzard has set herself an “impossible” task of completing 32 marathons in 31 days for charity.
Why do video games have “nightmar..
Preparing for the End
As a distraction from working on my final draft of my thesis paper, I look out the window at the snow-covered ground. The sky is still..
My Top 5 Albums of 2020
Given the Grammys are a little more than a month away, I thought it would be fitting to talk about the music that has continued to get me ..
Columbia Collaborates
In my last two blog posts, I talked about projects in the classroom as part of the MFA Composition for the Screen program, but there a..
To Grow and Learn, to Teach in Turn
My cute, but largely unhelpful FTA (Feline Teaching Assistant)
I’ve been accused countless times in my life of dreaming too big, havin..
Set the Timer to Pandemic and Wait
Over the next three weeks, students all over the country will prepare for finals in the form of tests, projects, presentations, and perfor..