teaching

Instead, she sets out a weekly menu of mostly nonacademic choices, in 15-20 minute blocks: quality time with a loved one, time spent organizing something at home or teaching someone else a skill.

The first in her bloodline to graduate high school, Straight earned an MFA at the University of Massachusetts and brought it home to UC Riverside, where she’s been teaching creative writing since 1988.

She relocated again—and after many years, I was able to find her thanks to the Notre Dame sisters teaching in our parish school.

But my husband was settling into his teaching career, and moving wasn’t an option, so I decided not to bring unwanted pressure on my children by complaining.

White supremacy debases Jesus’ actual teachings of radical equality, just as it makes democracy impossible.