Our run-ins with wildlife continue… A few weeks ago, A and I were eating lunch on the stairs at UCT when this handsome fellow showed up in search of  his own mid-day meal. We might have missed the whole encounter had a friendly student not pointed...

My articles at the Getting Boys to Read blog continue! It has been great to write about something I care about so much. But most importantly, the writing process has helped me discover connections and realizations about literacy and the boys with whom...

We didn’t put up an ad or even decide to have a roommate. She just appeared one day, taking over the patio and paying NO RENT, I might add. I was terrified at first. Who wouldn’t be when they notice an intruder in their home? But I’m trying to make...

I have a writing buddy. Not the kind of buddy who tears your writing into packing material, or proclaims your genius. No. This relationship has nothing at all to do with my writing, but everything to do with his. Zo* is a ten-year-old South African...

There is a poster that hangs in the hallway of the school where I volunteer. In the mornings before I meet my first learner for one of our reading sessions, I stop for a moment to read it: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to...