This business of the past involves the historical record, the formal histories written by trained historians. There’s no documentary history,…
Krug, Aubrey Streit, “Grounded” What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be, Hausdoerffer, Hecht, Nelson, Cummings, University of Chicago Press, 2021.
I used to think that by writing I could carry knowledge from the past forward in time, like knowledge could…
Ed. Hausdoerffer, Hecht, Nelson, and Cummings, “Introduction” What Kind of Ancestor of Do You Want to Be? (The University of Chicago Press 2021)
Just as we prepare the young to step into adulthood and release the childish ways for the health and growth…
Rabkin, Sarah Juniper, “A Great Excuse to Stare: Seeing Through the Eyes of a Gifted Drawing Teacher” The Alphabet of Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing, Ed. Christian McEwan & Mark Statman (Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2000)
As teachers, we don’t always have to offer something new. Often our most important function–as when writing instructors encourage writers…