Let’s Do Away With Schools
Years ago, when Sacramento native Dusty Baker was manager of the San Francisco Giants he used to dress up his 3-year-old son Darren in a miniature Giants uniform and let [...]
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Sep, 2013
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Jun, 2013
Poverty and Our Public Schools
I chose to make my career in public education and I have become a fierce defender of it as a democratic institution. I worked as a special educator with [...]
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Jun, 2013
Crown in Heaven
When I was teaching special education classes I often took my students out to grocery stores, fast food restaurants or shopping malls to teach them how to behave in community [...]
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Jun, 2013
My Teaching Life
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MAY 25, 2013 I’ve been posting pieces about my writing these past few weeks, and let me be honest here: that’s been easy. Writing is most often a [...]
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Jun, 2013
Unexpected Blessings
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 15, 2013 In my novel, Welcome Stranger, an encounter with a stranger changes a woman’s life. Thinking back on my life as a writer, I was remembering [...]