It's Like Herding Cats

Christmas Eve at the Wilson's and the simplicity of the coming of the Prince of Peace is what's on my mind. At New Hope, we don...

The late Vance Havner said "If you do not come apart, you will come apart." I guess that's why teachers get a break a...

Thinking about it this week, joy is what's missing from Christmas for so many. We get so caught up in forcing happiness into what ...

I've been sitting here this rare afternoon in my office at church and reading the Scriptures and listening to Handel's Messiah. Oh...

Advent. It's a season that can get you to examine things you've been covering over and pretending not to notice. I've be...

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”  ―  Dr. Seuss We...

Our school (Eglin Elementary, on Eglin AFB) had a wonderful Veteran's Day walk Tuesday. The whole school went over to the All Wa...

Everyone knows the opening line... "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." Maybe the reason it sticks in our me...

Touched By Love After the blur of my first week as a full-time teacher, I enjoyed Saturday immensely. Who knew that sleeping until seven ...

Tuesday evening, I spent a couple hours of my life meeting and greeting with some of the forgotten 1% of America. It was open house a...

Well, it's been a long day and I'm about to head to bed, but I wanted to journal some of what I experienced today. - Never under...

It was the first day of the week and the start of the next to last week I would have a teaching job. It was Monday.  Beginning with a...

It was a "sixth sense" moment.  We were working through some tougher work yesterday. Math isn't easy for some of the ...

It was never about the church for me. In fact, there was a lot about the church that served to push me away. When my Mother ...

The weeks have flown by at Mary Esther Elementary. I've learned an awful lot about teaching that textbooks will never deliver. ...

Friday is test day in most elementary schools. We work very hard all week, taking mini-assessments along the way but for whatever reas...

Saturday, I wasn't able to be at Lewis School's Relay for Life race. I've been there every year since we started doing...

That phrase haunts me at times. There are many other times though that people don't speak up and say something like that - choos...

The day of reckoning is approaching for my 16 third graders as I was shown how to input their grades into the online system earlier to...

Our friend Allan. For the last three weeks, I've been a bivocational pastor. Full time third grade teacher (long term substitute) ...