writing | Marginalia

Lights Outside 33 E. Congress

As I’m writing this, I’m halfway through week two of the semester and it feels like summer is a distant ..

Planning my Fall WRI Course

Two short weeks from when I am writing this post, we will be back in class. With so much happening in such..

Photo Credit: Joshua C Robinson

I had the impression that I was an exceptional writer; I had convinced myself that I had writing nearly ..

Interviewing Felix Gonzalez for my final TV package on the Chicago Youth Boxing Club.

Two words: Finals week.

The home stretch.

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I’m trying to finish this thesis. And by finish, I mean finish a draft of the novel to revise and then revise again, and maybe again a..

For an educator it is the greatest reward to see your students interested in a lesson, engaged thoughtfully in their work, and demonst..

Every time I return home, something is different. I came back from a year’s travel in 2006 to twenty kilometers of arterial motorway t..

I’m 150 pages into my novel and I am at THAT point—the one where you come up with excuses to stop writing. Well, I think in my case it..

Finals week is upon us.

Thinking back, at this time last year, I was staying up late, working feverishly on my grad school applicat..

As I write this, September is ending. October is just hours away, and that change is present in the air. It’s cooling off, sending the..