Wow! That was fast. I mean, after nearly eighteen months of hardly going anywhere and seeing only the people in my bubble, you'd think I...

  How was your month for reading?  I started strong with The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, a wonderful portal fantasy s...

 One of the casualties of pandemic life at la casa Bryant has been date nights. As people who have never been married without children (I al...

 In my day job, I teach middle school Spanish. My school, like many in the United States, closed its doors in March 2020, expecting that we...

IKR? Guess all that extra time at home had me scrambling for travel via literature. Each year, I set a goal of 52 books a year, averaging ou...

2020, man. Whew. Don't those numbers just wear you out every time you see them? Between the pandemic, the social unrest, and the politic...

Note: This post first appeared on my teaching blog a week ago, but I felt strongly enough to seek a wider audience for these thoughts. Apol...

In August, I didn't ready very many books. Now, partly, this was because one of the books I *did* read was Look Homeward, Angel , which...

  The Practical Pedagogue: Things I Learned Today: Starting the Schoolyear di... :  1. It's easier with the students I already know than...

Reading has always been my escape, well, as long as I can remember anyway. But like a lot of readers I've talked to recently, falling in...

Critical Read put out a call recently for short nonfiction posts about art that is seeing you through the pandemic. They rejected my submis...

In March, when our quarantine began, I found it hard to read. Every time I sat still, I felt guilty. Surely there as some kind of preparatio...