Taking a break after three hours of researching journal articles for my lit review, I suppose I should lay out a few topics this blog might explore. One, apparently, is a chronicle of my evolving work as a phd student/scholar/researcher/educator. At least that is what is on my mind right now, while I’m deep in the trenches (lovely military metaphor) of this work. I may also chronicle the challenges of drug and alcohol recovery; parrhesia (hence the blog title) and what it means to be honest and to have the courage to speak truth to power in a time of incredible repression in the U.S.; social justice in general but also as it relates to education in particular; teaching, education, and teacher education; popular culture–things like television, the media, facecrackbook and social networking, music, etc.; and a host of other topics I am not thinking of right now.
As John and Paige have discussed (hey, so far you guys might be my only readers!!!), blogging and social networking represent our society’s latest form of narcissism. With the trepidation that this statement brings to me–which is why I probably haven’t blogged in the first place–I acknowledge up front that any and all of this drivel may just be my own journaling and hence prove more suitable for the therapist’s couch than the publicly-available printed page. Or perhaps it’s my own feeling of inadequacy speaking. I guess what I am trying to say is that this is mostly a space for the cathartic process of writing to wash over me, to free the path from my thoughts to my typing fingers and see what happens. I make a promise to myself not to hold down delete too often.
