After moving to college, I began hearing whispers that my school district was grappling with the idea that their SWAS program might have been racist.

“The science of language” struck eighteen-year-old me as an appealing contradiction.

Finding a Texan’s favorite breakfast in Portland, Oregon

There’s not much here right now, but I’m not about to let some other “Dean Schmeltz” claim this domain name. Not on my watch.

Here I’ll be posting links to some things I’ve been reading or writing, so stay tuned. Just for kicks, here’s my undergrad thesis.