Everyone has enemies. Right? I’ve shared my love for superhero movies. There are evil enemies in all of those flicks. Every literary character worth anything seems to have a foil. I teach my seventh graders about conflict in the narratives they read and while not every text in the curriculum has a clear “bad guy,” […]

A little known fact about me is that I love a good super hero story. If I’m flipping through channels or scrolling the Hulu menu, I absolutely have to stop if I find a Marvel movie on. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen it, or how far into the plot it my be, […]

When I read the headline and the subsequent article, I said a quick prayer. Surely the 15 year old victim would not be one of the students I had when I taught on the other side of town. After all, there are at least 2-3 other high schools near the crime scenes and that meant […]