Twenty-Two years into a teaching career I love, I expected stability. Instead, I found a widening systemic gap that debt, budgets, and hard work can no longer bridge. It's time to stop treating financial struggle as a personal moral failing and ask the deeper question: What happens to a society when survival consumes all of our energy?
Perhaps the worst lie we ever toldwas that America was the land of opportunity. That if you came,if you worked,if you did your best,it didn’t matter who you wereor where you came from.You could be anything. I wanted to believe that story.We all did.It was stitched into every anthem,every flag in our childhood classrooms,every promise… Continue reading The Land of Lies
There is no such thing as them. You wouldn’t know it, though. We’ve been bombarded by people being stuffed into that role. If there is a them, then there is an us we can safely belong to. Secure in the group, with an enemy out there in the Themness. It’s a trick, an old one.… Continue reading There Is No Them
