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.

But then, around mid-year, a 2nd grade student I worked with was observed by her teacher licking her chair. Concerned, I took the student t

Think before you speak; never speak before you think.

In it, he posed the question: “Why do they call it ‘Down syndrome’, when you bring everybody ‘Up’?

He uplifts his audience and opens their eyes and shows them a new perspective to a life with disabilities.

Being kind, forgiving, and loving is a choice, so is being abusive.