Enjoying the Journey

“You’re fat.” “You’re worthless.” “You’ll end up in jail just like your father.” This week my freshmen and I talked about the p...

I am a teacher, and tonight – the night before school starts back – the honest to goodness truth is that right now I could not care less ab...

I glanced in the rearview mirror today, and her shining eyes in the very back seat brought a lump into my throat. She is six now, h...

It’s almost here, fellow teachers.  Like it or not, we will wake up Monday morning much earlier than our summer sleep schedules are acc...

Pastor José’s eyes were rimmed with red as we gathered at the front of his church. We had just finished painting his house, transforming a ...

Her brown eyes followed our van as we passed her on the bumpy road, looking through the windows at a dozen Americans conspicuously out of p...

Tomorrow is a big deal for the new Mrs. Scott. From this point forward, it shall be known as 'the day Jennie got on a plane on purpose f...