Family Friday: To Bandit
Shabbat Shalom! I want to take some time before Shabbat begins to share something for Bandit. I start this attempt knowing full well that any words I try to set …
On Talking to Strangers
Each Thursday I will be pulling something from my personal writing archives to share until the archives run out! Buckle in for some poetry, short stories, personal essays, and book …
Sleepless
A snow blizzards outside my window and I pull up my blind to watch the frantic flakes. It is the middle of the night or the earliest hours of the …
It is More Than a Month
Today, the first day of Black History Month, the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIH) published an essential historiography by Stephen G. Hall tracing the roots of this celebratory month. “History as …
Relationships through Food
Snack cakes come packaged in twos. In 8th grade, my dad would drive me to and from school on his three weeks off. Working on the North Slope in Alaska, …
While Waning
I don’t usually like to preface my writing with explanation or apologies, a habit I learned from Hollins where my work was expected to stand alone and endure critique with …
Who Does History Belong To?
It was the twilight of summer, several years ago, before my Grandpa Wally or Grandma Betty had passed, perhaps even before I graduated from Hollins. I was in the crawl …
On Being a Historian in the Digital Age
To be honest, the idea of immediate and public communication has always fallen from my brain like bowling ball– the large lump squeezing through my throat before plummeting my gut …