It was a job and Buster needed to stop looking at it like that right then and there or he wouldn’t have one. Read more

There are too many imperfections that bleed over into ugly… Read more

I nodded my thanks and gave each kid a sticker of their choosing. I have ten thousand stickers, it’s the least I can do.  Read more

Hope is what people “hang on to,” whatever that means, when they know they’ve lost but are stubborn and want to disappoint themselves. Read more

I’m reading. Is that waiting to die or living?   Read more

Shawn will always be one of my kids, even though he’s been a grown-assed man for at least thirty years now. I remember certain students for random reasons. Shawn was a twin, a brilliant one. Blonde, nice looking, a sweeter young man with manners you’d never meet. He was a creative writer, but he’d never Read more