Being the change we wish to see...

How what jolts us points us to the worlds we crave to create - I am no stranger to being appalled by the wounds of the world. It started very early in my life. 

Humans are social creatures by design. It's in our makeup to seek belonging. The absence of belonging for so many has created epidemic loneliness.

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...

I am a proud misfit.  I am a vegetarian born in Philadelphia who orders cheesesteaks without the steak.  I am a serious pacifist who...

I am not suggesting it is easy to use your voice on behalf of the vision you have, the reality you wish to build. Not by a long shot. But you CAN do it. 

In my heart and my soul, I see who my country can be, how it can live up to its promise of “sweet land of liberty.”

I believe in using my voice to make space for others to do the same. I am a stand for amplifying the voices that white christian nationalist patriarchy seeks to silence. 

I voted for Kamala Harris. I really wanted her to be the next president because of who she is as a human being. I've been drawn to her...

As we rounded the corner from 2020 to 2021 and started to venture out after COVID had come to stay, I had a realization, two actually....