She was a weed. Not chosen, not planned, not purchased from a nursery with careful hands and pride-filled soil. She was scattered, tossed by wilderness winds into ground that was cracked, unwanted, unprepared. Still, she grew. Still, she bloomed. Not to boast of herself, but to whisper: “I am here. I matter. Even weeds bring […]

A Family Confession:Sometimes I’m just over here winging it with these humans I love. I never want to make parenthood sound easy, because it’s not. It’s more like stumbling through a land of cactus in shorts and flip flops, trying not to let the splinters stop me from moving forward. Then I realize I get […]

I didn’t expect a simple comb to make me cry today. While cleaning out a box, I found it, the comb of a student I served a few years ago. He never meant to leave it. One day, he stopped coming to school. I was so devestated when I learned he had been removed because […]

To the 15 Year Old Child from Abilene, TX. The one in the video. The one being hurt.  I saw you.I heard you.I couldn’t look away. I needed to watch, not for shock or curiosity, but because I knew what it felt like to be the one no one protected. I was 15 too […]