What are you fearful of in the midst of this pandemic? What are you most afraid of losing?

I cried myself to sleep last night. Ugly cried. That kind of crying where you can’t breathe through your nose anymore and you wake up with your eyes swollen ...

In Lubbock, the big small town in the panhandle of Texas, gentlemen still say “yes ma’am” and women still wear pearls to church. In Lubbock, neighbors stop a...

When my kids come home from school, they say, “Hi mom! How was your day?” in this super kind but sort of tired, it's-been-a-long-day voice. And then Jake com...

I was twenty-three and teaching a room full of seniors. I was scarcely their elder and struggling to maintain control. I’m a bossy and stern woman, so I had ...

Before you judge me, I want to start with the announcement that this is my first mirror selfie ever. I swear. Well, other than the ones I send to my fashioni...

How long has it been since you read To Kill a Mockingbird? So dadgum good. One of my favorite scenes was Scout’s first day of school. Miss Caroline was the n...

I have to jump through every single hoop to be valuable and worthy. I’m not as good of a teacher as.... I am failing. I need to do more. No one appreciates m...

Elias was a young boy in the foster system, taken away from his mother and placed into three temporary foster homes before settling in, at the age of three, w...

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. (James 1:2-3) D...

At the recent Republican convention, Donald Trump Jr. made his, and presumably his father's, stance on public education quite clear. He proclaimed: The other...

So this one’s probably going to get me into quite a bit of trouble. I don’t like trouble. And I really don’t like to be IN it. But I’m feeling called to say ...

I've been preaching at you for nine months now, so I predict that more life lessons would simply result in some eye rolling, possibly even the termination of...

English I; room 252; April 29; Anytown, USA “Miss, I thought chapter eleven was super random. Why did we need to read for a whole chapter about some old lady...

I picked up the book The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown, fully intent on breaking my cycle of perfectionism, preferably by the end of spring break. I b...