Welcome to my blog.

I’m a teacher, student, and writer living in Mt. Sinai, New York with my partner, our two children and four cats. My interests include watching interesting films and thinking about screenwriting, listening to interesting music and thinking about song writing, reading interesting short fiction and actually writing short fiction, and forcing my children to entertain me.

When I decided that I wanted to teach high school English, I had no idea of what that actually meant.  I knew I loved literature and writing, and I had this sort of image of myself as a conduit who would pass on passion for the written and spoken word. What I didn’t realize was that language and literature are far more dynamic than I had imagined, particularly in the realm of the digital, where their existence is both viable and highly influential.

While I have ventured into using technology as a teaching tool, I still feel limited, and much of what I see my students and children seamlessly doing with digital media seems so foreign to me.

So, my plan is to make the foreign familiar, to wow my students with my vast knowledge of digital media and, consequently, to contextualize the language and literature I love so much with their lives – much of which is online.

Thanks for reading.