What Crosses My Mind

  • Innocence Lost and Assault Weaponry. The Children.

    It’s been nearly two weeks since two children were murdered along with countless gun shot wounds to additional children while attending prayer at their first day of school in Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis.  One of the injured, a young girl, remains in critical care, fighting for her life. I’ve been trying to…

  • I Looked In Their Hearts Today

    I didn’t tell them as much, you never can, well you might, I might occasionally want to shout, I want them to know I love them, we love them, there’s a lot of love when each one of them walks inside my classroom.   I wanted to reach them today, they couldn’t really feel the…

  • Why School Shooting Awareness Matters

    Recently, our high school (not Kentucky) went through a serious protocol called A.L.I.C.E. as a national preventative for school shootings. The word is an acronym for the following: Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate (ALICE). While as a teacher I have gone through many safety initiatives over the last twenty years that evolved from the Columbine…