photo by Mark Rogers “You have to embrace the chaos. That way life might just astonish you.” Hot Tub Time Machine This is circa 1995 or...

I’m certain every teacher has heard the phrase, “You’re so lucky, you have summers off.” This statement is dumb, don’t say it. First,...

Sofia and Mark Rogers, dancing in the street in Tijuana Here we are—Sophy and me—dancing again. But it’s not at a nightclub or Tijuana...

Illustration by Mark Rogers I think a teacher can sometimes take a visceral dislike to a student. As a freshman in high school, I had an...

Are we born installed with a Jungian anima or animus? An ideal man or woman who from birth lurks in our subconscious? Or is there a...

Were my dad and I ever close? I don’t think so. But one day when I was seven years old the gulf between us grew even wider. It was a...

artwork by Mark Rogers On the drive home from Ciudad Obregon, we see a distant rainbow in front of us and then a second rainbow reflected...

The first community college course I taught was Introductory Algebra, once a week - Saturday, 8 am to noon. I was given a book, the room...

photo by Mark Rogers Juan is building a cinderblock wall for us. He lasted only a couple of days. We learned Juan was a slave of sorts,...

In August 1998, I spent three weeks as a guest teacher at the Danchimah Nigerian-American Laboratory School (DNALS) in Aba, Nigeria. The...