In my junior and senior years of high school, we had a principal who looked exactly like him — he was Mr. Burn’s real-world doppelganger. Maybe it is because my “wonder years” of awkwardness were sandwiched in between the late eighties and early nineties, but to this day, if I…

What Really Is Darkness? We are coming up on Chanukah. It begins this evening as a matter of fact. I am sure most of you are aware of this and in fact, some of you may even light your menorah’s at home. Chanukah begins at Sundown — as does every…

I didn’t always want to be a teacher. Contrary to popular belief, most of us aren’t born thinking that teaching is the only thing we could ever do. Sure, there are those teachers who always wanted to be teachers and never imagined themselves in any other professional role, but for…

While you may be hoping for a better world in 2021, my new year has just begun. With the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I have been welcoming the year 5781. …

I Can’t Even. I want this to be a lie: some dystopian world I fell into through the back of the wardrobe closet. I want it just to be a dream. So now I guess, I equate dreams with lies, hmmm. Interesting, huh? Maybe you know what I am rambling…

One summer day, I came home from my morning teaching summer school classes to find my eleven-year-old daughter in the backyard trying to undo the circumstances of her life one grain of sand at a time. In front of her was a Waialua soda bottle formerly filled with passion fruit…

A few years ago, I wrote a post about Father’s Day titled, Father’s Day, A Single-Mom, Where People Pee, and Alligators — Oh, My! In that post, I vented a lot of my frustrations with being a twice-divorced, single mom of two children ages twelve and eleven (a boy and…

Today is the pet dedication day at Unitarian Church North in Mequon, WI where I work as the Director of Lifespan Faith Development, and this circus called the pet blessing is my show to put on and lead. I hope all of our furry, feathered, and scaly friends enjoy their…