What Crosses My Mind

  • A Teacher’s Lament

    I think of my former colleagues today, ~ Walking into a world around me inexplainable yet show up we will. We walk in the classroom, we hold your student’s lives near our heart. We will be there waiting for them the students the inspiration the reason no matter the circumstance outside of our control. We…

  • Sedentary State of Mind

    Walking home one afternoon, I noticed she cared about my world. She was always the center of my attention, a popular girl I was privileged walking her home every afternoon, climbing actual hills winding paths until our homes a block apart appeared on the horizon, indicating now my time would wane her goings to her…

  • First Days

    There is a certain pull a potential a need to feel that rotating wheel of some significance the quest, we guessed, in first days the moment of truth perhaps or better suggested that moment when opportunity strikes that initial fever pitch ~ Let’s hang on gonna be a roller coaster doesn’t mean you’ll fall off…

  • Something About A Speaker

    Remember standing in the rain feeling the water dampen your cheeks nose tickling from soft droplets then your hand wet wiping it all away. Suddenly then some literary mirage asks you might reconsider that moment was the asphalt wet did your socks get soaked. Perhaps instead in your picture window you watched all the kids…

  • I Cried Tonight

      While rains fell, I swam in the beauty of a summer shower, the cloudy afternoon turning toward nature’s setting hour, I think we all have our own conception of a romanticized storm with its electrifying resonance, makes us each somehow conform.   This year has been a challenge to breathe, only in quiet we…

  • Listening To The Trains

    I was listening to the rain outside, a steady rhythm of a soft spring shower the whistle of a train nearby, reminded me of a man I love so dear.   I have watched him grow his entire life a boy to a young man, such happens overnight I see pictures and memories and I…

  • Distance Learning

    So, I imagined this happening, the wave of the virus, would shut us down, remove our access to the classroom.   A part of me appreciated the break, I could still with students, have a dialogue in the distance, never contemplated the reality.   Then the news, the overbearing sentence of every teacher, every student,…

  • Don’t Feel Sorry For A Teacher

    I run an immediate risk with teaching colleagues with such a title caught in the eye of the storm that is COVID-19. Our lives and the students we teach are forever changed, anyone, anywhere in the world will be impacted more directly than indirectly by this virus. We will all have to adjust to the…

  • We Have Similar Skin

    Watched him today many eyes would notice a downcast security my body my own my mind thrown to the wolves with one glance back. Watched her today some certainty might allow a surrounding hypocrisy unleash ugliness for is it not he, she once, he will wish they might he know she lives, he … Lives.…

  • Another Steps In

    Remember the word invaluable its mystique left in its own mythological persona, that feeling of worthiness beyond the normalcy of our lives.   Remember we always believe, seldom do we allow ourselves to fail the resilient nature of respecting the human condition.   Remember we tend to pretend ‘everything is alright’ ‘we should get together…