“I never wanted to become a teacher,” I said, smiling. That is not the most romantic thing someone could say to the state teacher of the year judging panel. Most of the candidates for the Texas Teacher of the Year award say that teaching has always been in the their blood. They say their mother ...
Archives for March 2016
Creating in Community
In October of 2014, you may have read this post on my blog. In it, I write about going on a business trip to Nashville and, at the last minute, calling up Nicole Hendley, an acquaintance with whom I'd never really shared more than a sentence or two. It worked for us to meet for coffee, and ...
The End of Chapter One
By five years old, I knew what I wanted to do with my life. It started with a poem. Then I wrote a play. By ten years old, I was writing “books” on the typewriter in my room, and a stack of papers rose higher and higher on the corner of the desk. I had typed Chapter One at the top of every ...
[Archive] 8: Bitter Made Sweet
"Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me" (Psalm 51:10). Just as God made the bitter water sweet for the Israelites in the desert, He will made sinful hearts clean for us. ...