Greig Roselli — Teacher, Writer, Philosophy Sprinkles Maker

In this book, Journal of a Novel,  Steinbeck talks about how he overcame writer's  block to write his epic novel East of Eden. ...

Sometimes life is like a circle. I could go on and give examples - and I will - but I feel like E.B. White did it best  in an essay  he wr...

I don't consider myself a gamer. However, like many kids who grew up in the 1990s, I did have a major hankering for the Nintendo and Su...

Teaching English to language learners is a challenging job; but, I do it every school day after I drink my first cup of coffee and stand sla...

I am going through old papers, tossing out papers, and boxing up books so I can move out of my apartment on April first. Saint Joseph Abb...

Greig dressed as a scary D.C. lobbyist OR tricky Dick Halloween Shenanigans I don't dress up for Halloween anymore. The last time w...

Greig in Sixth-Grade, circa 1992 I'll probably regret posting this picture of me taken on a Sixth Grade field trip to the Global ...

At Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana circa 1998 Throwback to that time in High School when I visited Centenary College in Shrev...

Me, Archbishop Philip Hannan, and Georgette Pintado (Nanan) Throwback post to 1997 - a Catholic Confirmation ceremony at Mary Queen of ...

Back in the mid-nineties - hell, it probably still happens - our public middle school in Saint Tammany Parish Louisiana conducted a program...

Discovering filters late in the game, I am all agog. Do you ever wake up with an intense dream that fills your morning with a ra...

I stop myself. Before I even begin typing. The thoughts in my head may not be appropriate even for a stream of consciousness rant. Ra...

A Room Of My Own (And Virginia's too!) © 2014 When I try to find beauty At the beginning of September, the heat of Summer begins t...

image source: videotron Not having a job changes you. You have to think differently when you're finding ways to carve out a life t...

Portrait of an Articulated Skeleton on a Bentwood Chair Yes, this is confessional. Forgetting that what I post on a blog is read by peo...

The Pitiful Job of Grading Papers It's slightly unsettling to grade students' final exams and to read their answers to the essay ...

Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said (And Other Faux Pas) is a book of 13 essays about my journey from New Orleans to NYC. Most of t...

Today I poured a cup of coffee into a plastic, reusable cup. I sighed. As the world sighs. I sat at my Formica dining room table, listening ...

Looking Back At March 31, 1997 Pencils in My Pocket I spent last Saturday reading my journal from 1997. Look at what I wrote on Ma...

On writing, and why practice makes perfect. A joy wall we made at school. Developmental argument: Practice makes perfect. I look...