I’m going to tell you two truths and a lie One - My hair has gotten so long that I thought something was crawling on the back of my waist. In a valiant effort to kill the offending and no doubt deadly creature, I rolled off the bed and onto the floor. It was the clarity of pain and the brush of hair across my arm that made me realize my error. Two - I have been singing along to Amel Larrieux’s “Make Me Whole” saying the wrong lyrics for over a decade. Instead of “the spirit

There’s a saying about opportunity knocking, but I’m not sure how it goes. I do know that opportunity has knocked and I keep opening the door. The more I open the door the more disconnected I become from the grunt and grind of teaching. Just to be clear, the grunt and the grind isn’t planning and teaching, and it certainly isn’t the students. It’s the everything else, the meetings and the more meetings, the paperwork, the emails, the testing and more testing, the lack of time