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{I remember the way the light danced across your eyes in the sunlight and you lifted your face in laughter.} I probably gave you more than if you portioned everything out, measuring as in [...]

One of the difficult tasks I face as an introverted educator has been learning how to navigate cynical, sarcastic, and discourteous verbose people who live in our world. Sometimes these are outrageous, angry, and [...]

Grace felt in short supply today and surely was missing in my interactions with medical insurance, Doctors offices, the DMV, mobile phone company, our bank.... plenty of barbs and jabs and shame from a [...]

Teachers: your students are your best educators. Ask them, then listen. What doesn’t work in curriculum, lesson delivery, content, assessments? Why? Be willing to shift. Or not. I write this to myself as much [...]

In his gospel, John shows that God chose to reveal his glory to us in his humiliation. That is the good, but also disturbing, news. God, in his infinite wisdom, chose to reveal his [...]

Today is another day in Holy Week called Maundy Thursday and this year I’m especially moved by the example of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, and the intensely personal, humane, and gracious gesture that [...]

So often Colorado skies are a Golden Age painting with light illuminating everything, clouds a subtle frame for enriched blue skies, sunlight filtering through haze in the air from wind, and — I pause [...]

The first time I talked to her about it she was beyond worried and could not get ahold of me for hours, wondering where I was, forgetting what high school starting with a "C" [...]

I measured my life in thirds back then – where before it was half-for-you and half-for-them – and I’m left holding the empty paper bag, suitable for hyperventilating. I know better now. A pandemic [...]

There are moments in life we are powerless to render an outcome no matter our actions. Two paths or roads or divergences… Both avenues will lead to equal measures of joy and sorrow, or [...]