Personal essays

Essays

Personal essays, notes on teaching, and pieces still taking shape. Works in progress are marked, and they change.

  1. Essay no.06Handing Over Delivery

    It's not lost on me, a writing teacher, that I just handed delivery to a machine after academia for the last century trained us to skip that canon.

    Nov 9, 2026 · 5 min read · 2 rounds of revision #teaching #writing #ai
  2. Essay no.05The Work in Between: AI Watermarks and the Recursive Process

    It doesn't matter that much who starts the writing, you or ChatGPT or Claude. What matters most is the recursive writing process.

    Nov 2, 2026 · 5 min read · 3 rounds of revision #teaching #writing #ai
  3. Essay no.04I Made Some Weird Games to Learn How AI Works

    Since I'm not submitting to literary journals this semester while I figure out AI and my English Composition curriculum, I've been tinkering with AI-use.

    Oct 14, 2026 · updated Nov 3, 2026 · 5 min read · 3 rounds of revision #games #ai
  4. Essay no.03Let the Record Build: Revision, Reflection, and AI

    Writing or creating in public usually means letting people see the process along with the product: the drafts, the missteps, the number of times you’ve changed your mind.

    Oct 4, 2026 · 4 min read · 4 rounds of revision #teaching #writing #ai
  5. Essay no.02The New Spiritual Literacy Practices of A Now Only Somewhat Atheist Adjunct Professor After An Alien Appeared by His Bed

    I woke up in the middle of the night in the summer of 2026 to a gray alien standing by my bed.

    Oct 2, 2026 · updated Oct 3, 2026 · 17 min read · 3 rounds of revision #teaching #writing #spirituality #hermit-crab
  6. Essay no.01How I Use AI, and Why I'm Publishing Here

    What I wrote, what Claude wrote, and who made the decisions. How each essay on this site is made, and why I'm stepping back from journals for now.

    Sep 28, 2026 · updated Nov 9, 2026 · 5 min read · 6 rounds of revision #thoughts #ai

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