Being the change we wish to see...

In my first year of teaching, I was feeling inadequate for the immense responsibilities of a public school teacher. For inspiration, I taped the Tale of a Starfish to the door of my classroom.

As a young teacher, I was thrust into creating a program from a class that barely existed. I was hired three days before school started to teach an Animal Science course in the career and tech-ed department of a local high school.

I believe in the power of love. I believe it can change the world. I believe it can heal hearts, birth art, build communities, transform lives.

The tea towel hanging in my kitchen (gifted to me by my mother) reads "Everyone was thinking it, I just said it." My mother really knows...