What Crosses My Mind

  • Thinking the Essence of Man

    Who are we he said over a beer with a friend, troubled by the circumstance of a gender bending authority in his mind, yet in another’s an opportunity perhaps to find Grace between man and woman, to know some spiritual guidance will take our lives much further then simple rejection.   Oh, but simple is…

  • My Issue With Vaping

    Recently, I presented a collaboration with colleagues on the dangers of vaping. Alongside we also explored rhetoric in advertising. An examples was a fifties picture of a pack of Viceroy cigarettes, with a dentist promoting the idea of using filters to protect our teeth and body. The premise was meant to identify safety in ingesting…

  • Days Beyond Surgery

    Ok, so I will begin and acknowledge a heavy dose of narcotics did prevent me from writing for days. Tonight, I am sitting a week away from surgery and there has been a story I wanted to tell, just haven’t found the right words. This procedure I experienced has had a major impact on my…

  • Moments Before My Surgery

    The many thoughts that go through my mind before surgery. Why did I walk into the ER? I wasn’t losing a leg, losing my sight, losing my mind. I’m only going through a minor procedure, though some would say it is major. I’m not asking for something to be removed that is going to thrive…

  • The Notion of Giving Up

    I’m in a bit of a crisis, so I’m going to write from my heart. I don’t really know where this will take me, if only to let me vent some of my fears, and find some peace. I recently came to a conclusion about important aspects of my life, and a need to make…

  • Another Lovely Summer Day, another shooting.

    In El Paso, a gunman used an AK-47, walked into a crowed Walmart on a Saturday afternoon, and took 20 lives before being arrested by surrounding law enforcement. So on a day when people are celebrating summer, barbecues, bicycle rides, recreational sports, boats on a lake, our country has become immune to the reality of…

  • Quiet Resolve on a City Bus

    I watched him passing by, a figure in the street, a personality, silence is resolute, his posture apparent, resolve clearly unknown though imagined, a stillness suggestive of peace, or perhaps concern from a distance it is always difficult to know what passes in the mind of a person, an individual a figure to be recognized…

  • My Dear Friend, Our Inspiration

    Ah summertime. It is true. Many times in our lives, as a teacher, we would like to retreat toward that which would make life easier. Perhaps we choose to fall into a string of Netflix series, or our favorite crime show rather than take care of the busy work of maintaining our home, both the…

  • The Will to Fight

    Was a day would a shadow be a muse could satisfy, ever loom cast a pall slow remember with little why. ~ In a breeze follow desire beauty is time lights a fire when all around our lives seem daunting love does remain. ~ A source indeed such is freedom her spirit waits … allow…

  • On Racial Disparity and an Unwillingness to Look Racism in the Eye.

    Kare 11 News In reviewing this tragic incident at Chaska high school this morning, I couldn’t help but feel some direct takeaways from the thread that follows this article. Clearly there is commentary that speaks to many sides of the issue, but the glaring reality for me is the ease we have with using blame…