There's Always Something

Good teachers teach.  And over the years I've had a lot of really good teachers.  Teachers that did a fantastic job of imparting information to me.  To be honest, though, I loved school and learning, so I basically thought that as long as the teacher was saying something that I didn't already know, which was a lot of things, then that teacher was a good teacher.  In my 12 years of formal, pre-secondary schooling from K-12th grade I attended 7 different schools: 4 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high school.  2 high schools if you count the one I walked across the parking lot for when I was in middle school.  So I went to a lot of schools.  I had a lot of teachers.  And most of them were good.  But a few of them were truly great.  They were great not because they were exceptionally knowledgeable or because they were exceptional orators.  As a matter of fact, a couple of the best teachers I've ever had were a little awkward in speeches (a...

I've always wanted to blog.  I really don't know the kind of blogger I'll be.  I know the really good ones make you feel like the words come to life.  I don't think I'm one of those.  But I hope that somewhere in my awkward combinations of letters that form words, and strings of words that form sentences, maybe something beautiful will happen.  Perhaps a memory will be saved or a revelation found, a thought explored or a brokenness revealed and then restored.  I hope mostly that this space is real. I'm a full time wife to JJ, a full time mom to Natalie and Virginia (Meimei) and a full time high school mathematics teacher at a Christian school.  I'm a part time sound technician and part time coach.  And as I'm learning on this journey, I'm a lot of other things, too. I've only been teaching high school math for a little over a year.  But as it turns out "high school math teacher" isn't an apt description for what I, and any of th...