Derek DavidsonJun 2, 20206 minSnapshot of Minneapolistrying to make sense of this crazy intersection of race and justice and safety and parenting and teaching.
Derek DavidsonMay 8, 20203 minSimple WrongThere is a major difference between being not bad and being good.
Derek DavidsonApr 28, 20202 minThe SkidToday is not a Monday or Tuesday. It is only Today. Tomorrow and yesterday share its Today-ness.
Derek DavidsonMar 30, 20203 minLessons that won't get taught. If the relationships don’t persist, did the teachers only care because they were paid to?
Derek DavidsonMar 30, 20204 minDiego What I’ll never be okay with is an arbitrary 50 minute cage around the learning in my room.
Derek DavidsonMar 5, 20203 minJoyNow the pile of non-related shittiness is sort of throbbing at me, begging to be aggregated.
Derek DavidsonFeb 28, 20206 minLaToyaBetween the years of 2007 and 2016 my car had the word “Bitch” keyed into the hood. I left it there as a reminder.
Derek DavidsonFeb 11, 202011 minTexas vs. MinnesotaTexas will always be my heart’s home. But my body lives in Minneapolis.
Derek DavidsonFeb 5, 20204 minSisyphusDrowning was elegant—everything was the same except now you’re dead.
Derek DavidsonJan 22, 20205 minIll Humor and MedicationWhen a dysthymic person has a bout of major depression, it's called double depression. I don’t have any single depression to compare it to.
Derek DavidsonJan 21, 20205 min"Why don't you drink?"I cannot stop eating gas station food, despite it being, you know, gas station food.
Derek DavidsonJan 15, 202010 minWrenI would wake up looking a total mess, something like Encino Man, unable to find my clothes, languid and gawking at her.
Derek DavidsonJan 8, 202021 minThat Email I sent KendleBlonde hair, wavy, put up in a messy bun. Her jeans had a hole in the knee, and she was wearing an oversized camouflage jacket. It was 1997.
Derek DavidsonJan 8, 20204 minThe Cow Linda stepped out of the car, bewildered, and began walking back to see what they hit. She thought it was a moose.
Derek DavidsonJan 8, 20205 minMagdaShe was short. And compact. Like a rock climber or something, and I’m sure she climbed rocks sometimes.
Derek DavidsonJan 8, 20208 minLinda Lou We’d watch Bob Ross paint a “happy little forest,” and make fun of his speech and his afro, but never his paintings. We liked his paintings.