: About Me

As an English teacher and computer instructor, I've enjoyed watching people grow as they learn. That's why I like to teach. I like to write. Writing is like building, or construction. You start with the rough structure, you add clarity, light, a lot of metaphorical concepts stolen from home building.

My first drafts are usually notoriously bad. Once in a while, they seem to come out of nowhere. Sometimes, I'm patting myself on the back, and laughing the whole time I'm doing it, and other times, I'm a nervous wreck that people will hate it.

When I write, I invent in my imagination a role and I'm always writing from that singular point-of-view. I use superlatives in strings of affirmations (not unlike Stuart Smalley ). The world's greatest...

My passion is ...

Writing challenges

I know too much about ...

Stupidity

My parents always told me ...

Stop thinking so much

My childhood ambition ...

Writing

My favorite memory ...

Mr. Kinnicut's Literature class

Why I write ...

The hole left by not writing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Goldfish crackers crunching as I type this

My first job ...

Jerry's Hamburgers--(Boss was a nationally ranked drinker)

My best moment ...

Running Henepin Canal in winter at 12 midnight

My inspiration ...

Chocolate cake, cat's allowing me to pet them, my son sleeping, my wife's laughter, jobs done, conservation of psychological momentum...

Education > Colleges & Universities (Other) Is professor bias a problem in our public colleges and universities?

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I am a college teacher. Everyone has an agenda, even college teachers. However, most college teachers that I know have chronically wholesome objectives. No matter how little bias there is among college professors, students will have problems with classes, especially in the humanities. The primary reason they have problems is that they are forced to take these classes, since many classes are "required." Students pay for these classes but find no intrinsic or extrinsic value in anything that doesn't lead to a lucrative skill set. They think of college, for example, as a vocational training e...

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