Matthew's Thoughts

The Role of Education in Cultural Change
My parents rarely took my brother and I out to dine at restaurants when we were young. When they did, it would be an evening table for four at a Red Lobster or Swiss Chalet or Denny’s. Their answer

Teaching is an Act
This new role that I am taking on this school year has caused me to do a lot of thinking.

Zen and the Art of Driver’s Ed
This should in no way be connected to that great body of factual information connected to the art of Zen.

The Smallest Things
A Poem in Paragraphs I got off the 401 at Markham Road today. And I’m so used to this

Foreign Language
(A part II to Immigrant Words) I do feel more comfortable describing my father as firstly an immigrant and then a

Immigrant Words
What does it mean to be a Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother raised on Indigenous

In Between The Bell
Students started filling the hallways after the afternoon bell rang. The first one. Shari, Felicia, and Nasir were all singing
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