For Whom
What does it cost to seem okay?
For Whom is a spoken word poem for the strong friends, quiet strugglers, brilliant overfunctioners, and anyone who has ever carried more than they showed.
A visual meditation on mental health, survival, and the ache of being praised for what almost broke you.
Leadership That Leaves: What I Saw in Coach Ross
He did not just hand out rings. He told a story about each boy.
What I was hearing was not just hype. I was hearing a leader narrate belonging in public.
The trophy and rings marked the win. What mattered most was everything that made them possible.
Beyond Adoption: Teaching the Open Education Landscape
At the UT System Momentum on OER Convening, I kept thinking about what higher education too often skips: the moment before adoption. The part where educators need structure, not cheerleading; method, not mandate. In this post, I reflect on that experience and share openly available resources, including a mini-lesson series and the OER Tracker, designed to make OER exploration more rigorous, transparent, and usable across roles.
Close Enough to Wave To
Family has never felt simple to me. It has felt layered, unstable, sacred, painful, blurry, loaded. More like something I have circled than something I have stood securely inside.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Authenticity
Imagine it like this: no courtroom, no highlight reel. Just a quiet place at the end of the road, and little you waiting. They don’t ask about your titles or your output. They ask one thing, plain and devastating: Who did you become when you had the choice?