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30 years ago, she couldn’t have known much about a sleepy little ag town called Montezuma.  Perhaps if she had, she would have changed her mind about accepting a teaching position nearby.  30 years ago, she wouldn’t have known that…

There are times when what you know to be true turns out to be less than true.  But before that split second of what really is truth dawns on you, you are forced to react to what you think is…

If you are a teacher, you are liable to get a lot of things nonchalantly flipped onto your desk. Allegedly corrected lessons, math pages, colorful notebooks, crumpled drawings… Yesterday I got an old-man rock. My first grader found it on…

I did something Saturday that I have firmly promised myself not ever to do again. I’m certain enough of it that I’m bringing my deed to the light, and public testimony, so you can help me if you ever see…