Early Life Eric Baysinger grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. He went to school at Iowa State and the University of Iowa, studying German, teaching, and Russian. He has taught for over 25 years in Iowa and Pennsylvania. His first teaching experience was with K-6 grade students in an enrichment program. He reflected on this work …
The past six months have been amazing. Anyone who knows me knows that I deplore hyperbole. Nothing is really awesome. Few things are fantastic. And, the amazing only happens once in a while. The past six months have been amazing – on the personal and the publishing fronts. We launched Backchannels Journal January 2019 after …
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“Do I know you?” “I feel like we’ve met before.” “You look exactly like my sister-in-law.” These sentences or some variant of them are words I hear every week. And they are usually followed by the person telling me a story. At the gas pump. In line at the grocery store. After a workshop. I …