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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • youR, a teaCher fer cryin’ outLOUD!

    Wait, what, yeah, you are right, so correct, me, cannot argue that. Its, Its, Its, stranglehold on my life is like, I cannot breathe today because I woke and realized, it’s, it’s, it’s, July.   Wait, what? I mean the end of July for crying out loud.   Man, get it together, you are sitting…

  • I Teach While Learning

    There is a humbling reality while we try to understand how our own brevity can impact our command ~ Last night I dropped acid on textbooks in minutia my anger erupted an acrid forced freedom in Ischia ~ We can so easily fall away the choices will fuel martyrdom I remember that one day, I felt…

  • Why Do We Teach?

    We measure our lives for the children, whether we advocate whether we understand whether we accept whether we gratify whether we acknowledge our own defeatist frame of mind while trying to change lives along the way. ~ I faced an obstacle today, one that turned out represented a state of mind, a clear example of…

  • I’m Your Teacher

    I wonder if you realize the time we imagine the words we deliver might benefit the fine beauty of the child, taming of the wild. We don’t ask to change a child’s life we don’t imagine to understand strife we offer all our time with every bell chime. The other day I walked outside and recognized an…

  • If Not For That

    We wake to the morning asking for our soul, at least for a few hours, protect the innocent, that sort of thing that eats away, asks you with a constant urgency. Do you have to be that way, could you maybe perhaps try it another way. Does it always have to be, the way you…

  • Proud These Tears

    There was that moment, when standing, holding court together, we merged our simple lives, with smiles, I’ve watched you grow, a calculated beautiful person, we all knew you were from day one, when I held you in my hands, 6:38 PM, my life changed that day, and yet I still managed to be human, on far…

  • Moments Near Windows

    The teacher said, ~ Draw a picture of the world outside Bring to life the vibrancy you might see ~ But I didn’t know what I could see Mattered little to her direction You see what I see might seem A little off, if I were to really let you see ~ Wait a little…