Years ago, all teachers in the large inner-city school where I taught were required to step into the hallway between classes while students were passing.  The teachers would glance at each other and give a faint smile, or nod.  I…

Recently, my pastor in Massachusetts delivered a sermon on ‘boundaries’ that we may be required to cross in our lifetime.  And that may happen at any point from re-locating, to being put into a new position in our job, to…

My time in Romania – July, 2024 to December, 2024 – was an unparalleled challenge – like never before.  Everything did not go wrong.  It just seemed as if it were ‘everything’.  I had only been in the country less…

I have a story to tell:     Once upon a time way back in the early 1900’s, there was a thirty-two-year-old mother of five with the youngest being only a few months old.  Besides their own biological children, the older widower…

I was shocked one year when I was teaching in the Providence (RI) Public School System to hear one of my students say, “I hate Christmas”.   And, even more shocked when I found out that there were others who held…