Please enjoy the video of this winning story: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wcV2hNCIXPyZRMeAIZ84EhSTg8c5Cs8C/view?usp=sharing
Author: fsbrill
BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE (SF Castro Theater, April 2023)
Please enjoy the video this GrandSlam story told at the Castro Theater in San Francisco: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18-rQok-ehX2HS7ITSxRB8OnBRJY4-VvU/view?usp=sharing
Opening Doors
This article was originally published in La Concha Magazine, Summer 2022
AWARDS (Berkeley Freight & Salvage, April 2022)
I was in the 5th grade, living deep in the Age of Mad Men, Evel Knievel and Benign Neglect. Based on pictures from that era, there’s irrefutable evidence that I was sporting a big Jewfro, wearing plaid bell bottoms, and hiding a set of mismatched front teeth behind swollen lips. You see, one of them … Continue reading AWARDS (Berkeley Freight & Salvage, April 2022)
Alone Together
This article was originally published in the TMI Project in April 2021: https://www.tmiproject.org/alone-together-fred-brill/
Leading and Learning: Effective School Leadership Through Reflective Storytelling and Inquiry
This text was published in 2008 by Stenhouse Publishers and is available at Stenhouse.com and Amazon.com: https://tinyurl.com/FredBrillStenhouse
Running and the Theory of Relativity … Taking running to a new level
This article was originally published in HealthyAging Magazine, Winter 2021.
Nancy Pelosi: Sorcerer, or merely a brilliant tactician?
This article was originally published in the Open Forum of the San Francisco Chronicle on December 24, 2019: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Nancy-Pelosi-Sorcerer-or-merely-a-brilliant-14928776.php
Welcome to fredbrill.com
For many years, my identity was consumed by the insatiable world of public education. I served as an English teacher, principal, superintendent, university instructor, environmental educator. After thirty-plus years in the field, there is finally time to allow my creative side to emerge.
GUESTS (San Francisco Public Works, November 2021)
Please enjoy the video of this winning story told at the San Francisco Moth StorySlam: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cGXDSqCteArcJEzTu0BGRJKOBjUjtmlF/view?usp=sharing