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  • Adobe Express April Creativity Challenge

    For the April Creative Challenge Adobe Express in your classroom, combine images from the nasa photo library to help teach Alignment + Juxtaposition to students. If you have never done this in your classroom, follow the link to see a walk thru activity for all three image options. adobe.ly/aprilchallenge26 My space-themed images used a combination…

  • The World’s Game, America’s Gates: Foreign Policy, the World Cup, and Who Gets Left Outside

    Every four years, FIFA promises the same thing: football unites the world. It is a beautiful slogan, and it occasionally comes close to being true. Then the politics show up. The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup (co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico) is supposed to be the largest sporting event in human history,…

  • Star Trek: First Contact at 30: A Teacher’s Journey Through Time, Memory, and the Borg

    Thirty years ago this year, Star Trek: First Contact premiered in theaters and fundamentally changed what Star Trek could be. Released on November 22, 1996, Jonathan Frakes’ directorial debut took the optimistic crew of the Enterprise-D into darker territory than the franchise had dared to explore on television; it gave us a Star Trek film…

  • Courage, Conscience, and Community: April 2026

    The content highlights themes of hope, Arab American heritage, significant historical anniversaries in April, and notable birthdays of influential figures throughout history.

  • The Long Ledger, Addendum

    The Realignment Has Already Begun The Iran Conflict, the Petrodollar, and the Economic Pivot Nobody Voted For A caveat before anything else: this post was written in late March 2026, while the conflict is still active and the full picture is still forming. Some of what is documented here will look different in six months;…

  • The Long Ledger: Part 4

    The Incubator Terror, China, and the Fracturing Dollar Order, 2000–2025 History rarely announces its turning points. The ones that seem obvious in retrospect were not always recognized as pivots in the moment; they were recognized as catastrophes, opportunities, or curiosities, and only later assembled into the narratives we use to explain them. The first twenty-five…