Phoenix is a city that shouldn’t even exist. Spread out across more than 14 thousand (!!!) square miles of desert in central Arizona, it’s massive, dry, criss-crossed with highways and
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Dreaming in Spanglish
Last night I dreamed that my normal students had turned into characters from The Wire. Marlo Stanfield was there in person, but the rest were sort of versions
Bill Bryson Goes to the real America… my America
Living abroad, I come into contact with people from basically everywhere in the world. “Foreigners.” People from Inner Mongolia, Uzbekistan, or the edge of Siberia, people from villages
The Great Arizona Haboob Controversy
In the last couple of weeks I have read some articles about language that I just couldn’t ignore. The latest one is about the controversy surrounding the word
Memories of a Redneck
When I was in Elementary School, I had a friend whose family were real Arizonians. I’m a real Arizonian, too, but my parents aren’t. This guy was third
