Exceptional updates!
So, in the immortal words of memes with Justin Timberlake, It’s Gonna Be May. And I have a lot of news.
My recent Substack post, “On Acceptance, Resistance, and the Last Word” is now republished on the Good Men Project website.
Speaking of which, the great singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter responded positively to her music being mentioned in the above essay. I’m over the moon.
I pitched an essay about music getting me through the pandemic to an online publication. We shall see what happens with that.
On May 6, I am presenting a storytelling workshop online for Story Jam Studio, based in Chicago.
I gave a presentation on cultivating a growth mindset at work; it went very well. I acknowledge that growth is always imperfect and never complete
I am ending the semester at two different colleges, now dealing with the anxiety of upcoming portfolio and research paper deadlines. I will have completed my second semester as an embedded tutor (teaching assistant) in an ESL class, and I am excited to see where that role takes me.
I will hear in late June about how different entries I submitted performed in a national communications contest—I’m hoping they did well, but I always value the judges’ feedback either way.
I’m slowly working on an article about music history survey books published in the last decade.
Other opportunities are arising, including potentially writing a journal article for the Journal of Working-Class Studies.
AND I got accepted to tell a story at an event put on by the storytelling group You’re Being Ridiculous!!! It will be in late May at a big theatre in Chicago. The theme is Joy, and I am very excited.
I will be posting here again soon!