Posted on August 26, 2023 by broffino
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One thing I love about a new semester is that a predictable cycle starts again. One thing I DON’T love about a new semester is that a predictable cycle starts again. There is comfort in the sameness and there can be stagnation in it…
Posted on February 22, 2023 by broffino
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In my Comp 2 classes, I have started letting my students select a reader and one of my classes picked a great one. (This originally evolved from an issue/worry with Florida’s Governor Ron Desantis’s new restrictions on classroom topics, but in the end, it…
Posted on August 15, 2022 by broffino
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After teaching writing classes for more than 11 years with Dallas College, I have resigned from my full-time position to light out for other endeavors. It’s a family move, but I also love adventure and growing. At first, I wasn’t sure about Florida –…
Posted on August 6, 2022 by broffino
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Want some thinking about how to find calmness in the middle of a chaotic day, week, month, summer, or life? (More about MY chaotic summer soon…) Try reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I always feel a bit like a kid out…
Posted on April 6, 2022 by broffino
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Maria Ressa, one of the most well known journalists from the Philippines, fighter for FACTS, and as a result, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, is sharing right now (Wednesday, April 6) about how fragile Democracy is right now. She is speaking as…
Posted on March 9, 2021 by broffino
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Would you risk your career and respect to share something that might shift laws and public perceptions?
Posted on December 30, 2020 by broffino
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Horrible, Haarible I once knew a pastor, an amazing and life-changing gentleman, who occasionally showed his Boston roots with a hint of an accent. I will always remember the way he described the brutality of the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s…
Posted on August 12, 2020 by broffino
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Civil Rights leader and US Representative John Lewis recently passed away. People who do not think of John Lewis as a hero are missing something. Either they don’t know how tirelessly he fought for equality and justice, without throwing an insult or a punch….
Posted on July 10, 2020 by broffino
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Want to be better? Want to be taken even more seriously? Want to take down your enemies, ahem, I mean refute your opposition politely? Then it may be worth paying more attention to flaws in logic or argument. In writing circles, we call these…
Posted on June 10, 2020 by broffino
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People often ask me where to get started to learn more about race and the situation with institutional racism in the United States. These two articles are almost always discussed in my college writing classes for a number of reasons, but not because they…