Keeping Up the Pace

      When I was a junior in high school, I played a minor character named Charlotte Sowerberry in the play Oliver. In one scene, the stage ...

     I have come to value the moments of beautiful irony in my life--not the moments that Alanis Morissette referenced in her hit song in th...

I didn't sign up for this.       That's what keeps coming to mind this year every time I put on a mask before I head into a public p...

       I rolled through the Chick-fil-A drive thru with tears in my eyes. The parking lot was crowded, but I knew from my students who work ...

    It was a cool Saturday morning when I recently decided to pound the pavement and go for a run. My runs have become a lot longer lately; ...

     I had an unfortunate nickname in eighth grade, as many thirteen year-olds tend to put labels on everything. It started when one boy in ...

 I wrote this blog four years ago, when my first group of IB TOK seniors headed off to college. I have continued to revise and share it each...