I entered 2023 intending to schedule enough time to finish the first installment in my “Myth of Me” memoir comic book series. Instead of accomplishing that work, I found myself…
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Though it was 27 years ago, this story still stings and it currently reverberates on the high school football field and education landscape of Arkansas. I started on the defensive…
The greatest dynasty in collegiate athletic history? The Arkansas Razorbacks. Over 150 years ago, President Andrew Johnson began the tradition of hosting athletic champions when he invited baseball’s Washington Nationals…
It has been a week — a season really — of going back to the basics for me. I learned this practice in my late teens/early 20’s from a friend…
Country is a lifestyle. For me, it is the way I was raised. Being country means the outdoors, loving hunting and fishing. It’s being respectful — to your parents and…
I am often asked what drives me to fight so hard for public schools. The people who ask me this are usually introspective types who read books like Finding Your…
Last Wednesday teachers flooded the Capitol to speak to the Senate Education Committee against SB 294, otherwise known as The LEARNS Act. A couple of those teachers were from Star…
If you’ve been following this big, beautiful experiment called Arkansas Strong, you will already know how I feel about the policy scam of our time known as vouchers. Vouchers, education…
I teach at a college but every year a local high school teacher has me present to her classes about Elizabethan literature, primarily Shakespeare; and my sister-in-law, Heathcliff, who teaches…
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