What Crosses My Mind

  • Grad Party Moments

    After a year of Covid the grad parties have returned. There have been years past where I haven’t attended any of the celebrations of our senior graduates. Last year I made no excuses, we all stayed home. But there have been occasion where I took an all or nothing approach. This year has been different.…

  • Living In An Ideal World

    We have students across the country reaching their final days, the year of the senior so many being asked to take that next step that freedom of becoming official that adult thing prayed for, imagined, perhaps sacrificed well before their time, readiness isn’t always an option unless we decide for ourselves not for each other.…

  • Wanting Discovery

    I am that person you see every day, in a coffee shop – caprice with friends, at the prom, nervous, in every crowd shot of each rite of passage, walking to school, waiting nearby, the one that popped out of a crowd with a smile, genuine and as easily drawn to cry as allow laughter.  …

  • Over Again

    It is, finality, finale, done, once again, this design, the cycle of purpose, the rite of passage, that notion of forever, suddenly swept away, in the throes of exhilarating release … Well for some the time has arrived, when new adventures become responsible direction. or there is always the opportunity to seek misguided futures. Perhaps…

  • In The Flash of a Moment

    Do you recall, big brother standing over you, saying the words you listen to today. ‘If I could do it all over again’ ~ Freshman year, starting high school. All the fanfare of the big house, pick your own schedule, no more lines to Algebra class, standing quiet in the hall, while Jeff McCutcheon strolled…