For as long as I can remember, I have gone down to the Gulf Coast of Texas in August. It was an easy drive, only about an hour, from Victoria where I was raised. Usually we went to Rockport; we would have a picnic on… Read More
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Love, Life and Loss
The national awareness of the needless loss of children probably started with Columbine in Littleton, CO, in 1999 when 13 students and a teacher were senselessly gunned down in April of that month. I was teaching in a high school in Connecticut then, and… Read More
You Are A Man, My Son
Here’s the thing about an education: once you have it, no one can ever take it away. It can’t be lost, or stolen, or repossessed; it doesn’t break, or get worn, or go out of style. It empowers you to become most fully who you… Read More
the narrative thread 