I grew up playing sports year-round. Starting at age 5, it was soccer in the fall, basketball in the winter, and softball in the spring....

Finding Ceremony on my bookshelf felt a bit magical. I didn't know it was there. When I first got the idea for this blog, I went down a...

An abridged version of this essay was printed in the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2023. For those of us in the know - who cheer from the...

SUMMARY Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee tells the journey of a young girl from India who as a grown woman finds herself in a small farming...

I just completed reading Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie and writing my blog post about why people might want to read or teach this...

SUMMARY Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie is the tale of a group of young Indians, as in Native American (though they refer to...

In 2004, I moved to Trinidad and Tobago for a semester of student-teaching at the International School in Port-of-Spain. It was my first...

Warning: Mild Spoilers Our names identify us, individualize us, and connect us. Yet, as Shakespeare writes in Romeo and Juliet, "A rose...

When I sat down to read "The Ultimate Christmas Show: Abridged" by Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin in preparation for marketing the show...

As Marketing Manager of Oceanside Theatre Company at the Brooks in San Diego County, I make it a point to read the works I'm marketing as...

December 26, 2023 - On the surface, it seems like a silly act to start a travel blog five years since I moved back to the States, when...