New Beginnings

It was a hot August day that I walked the halls of this school for the very first time. A new beginning. I was young, very young is seems to me now looking back, and I came to meet with the principal and to see my classroom. That first year of teaching in Virginia was...

Let’s Do It

Just do it, I heard Him whisper today. Yes, go ahead and do it. Don’t worry about doing it perfectly. Don’t fret about how well others can do it. No, my child, just go ahead and do it. The desire had been there for a while but things kept getting in  the way....

Shining Moments

There are two days that I will never forget.    Although the years have come and gone I will never forget that first day    when I stood before my wide-eyed first graders   for the first time   as  their teacher. It was in a small elementary school in upstate New York...

Shining Moments

Don’t you ever wish you could just erase the slate and start all over? All errors, mistakes failures Gone. Years ago I’d wash the blackboard in my classroom every afternoon. Slowly washing away all the letters and numbers all the sentences and names and date. Gone....

Shining Moments

There was one moment     in the whole adoption process        that shines brightly above the rest. It was a few days before Christmas 1993. For three days I had been spending time with my six month old baby girl   in the orphanage. My heart would beat with excitement...