A fan of endless learning. Are you? #dallasnews #LetterstotheEditor

Total eclipse day! 🌕☀️

How young readers find their community dallasnews.com/opinion/commen… #nttbf

End-of-the-year orchestra concert at my favorite middle school ❤️ Pearson Middle School

Incredible lineup from the All We Do Is Write panel North Texas Teen Book Festival — inspiring advice from Stuart Gibbs, Soman Chainani, Lois Lowry, Laurie Halse Anderson and Gordon Korman

It’s no surprise that we’ve reached this frenzied state of celebration and recognition. We’ve been training for this for a generation. Damm: Let’s cool it with the school celebrations dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…

This writer agrees that school celebrations should not be so frequent. What do you think? #dallasnews #LetterstotheEditor #TyraDamm

We’re overdue for a discussion on the privilege afforded professional athletes.

Last night I was working with an 8-year-old. “That’s some good reading,” I told her after she read a tough page. I read the next page aloud. “That’s some good reading,” she told me. We repeat what we hear — a sweet reminder to speak with kindness. ❤️

A love letter to my suburb dallasnews.com/opinion/commen… I’m aware of what irritates the anti-suburban crowd, but I focus more on the people. The people make my suburb home.

Damm: TikTok works for me dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…

JD Vance announcement skips over Gen X entirely. From Boomers to Millennials.

We have a history of feeling put upon — and perhaps a bit of a victim complex. Damm: Trump’s pick of J.D. Vance skips over Gen X dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…

1 0 3 outside AC unit stops working August exhausts me #summer #haiku

A book prize picked by prisoners dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…

I like to think of an adult’s role as a lighthouse — a steady presence in the storm, a beacon of light in the darkness, a stable force no matter the size of the tide or the strength of the wind. Damm: Our kids need lighthouses in the mental health storm dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…

This isn’t the kind of parenting that shows up on our social media feeds — carefully curated posts with coordinated outfits and exclamations of the joys of raising children. Damm: How I navigated single motherhood dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…