Role Reboot

Why I Won’t Be Attending My High School Reunion This Weekend

Because the best day of high school was the last day. I don’t want to attend my 50th high school reunion. No excuses, I just don’t want to. I can afford it, I don’t have family obligations keeping me home, I look fine, and I’m proud of my accomplishments. I just don’t want to go. When […]

I Am A Queer Teacher

I keep my guard up, my mouth closed, because I won’t forget that it only takes one student, one parent, to take it all away. When I take the job teaching English at a small Connecticut boarding school, my parents ask when I’ll tell my colleagues I’m bisexual. I’m folding laundry in their house in […]