Poetry Reading at Analogue Books and Records in Pueblo, CO.

The first day of school, you were face down on the floor crying in front of my classroom talking in gasps of tears too old to be your own sa

I said, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I know how you feel. I miss my mommy too (been deceased for 12 years, absent from my life for 40 years). "But yo

Always tell your students that you love them, even during the difficult times, because that is probably when they need to hear it the most.

One of my favorite poems from my book, Fingerprints, about a special student, as well as the story behind the poem.