Many people watch their favorite events as the Summer Olympics unfolds. What you may not know, is that after the regular games, there are elite athletes who compete in the Paralympic games. They are every bit the creme de la creme of athletes, but they have disabilities. For example, the blind swimmers have an auditory […]

Read More You May Not Know This About the Olympics

Middle school teachers are a rare breed. We enjoy adolescents. We want to teach children who are at the most confusing and significant point in their childhood. We also are fiercely competitive though many of us have never won any awards for athletic greatness. This past weekend my school fielded two softball teams in a […]

Read More Take One For the Team

Reverie’s shoes dug into a long, thin ribbon of sand behind the Orion Caribbean Suites, San Juan. The sound of the waves crashing against the breakers, and the majestic striations of color that painted her little stretch of beach made it worth the extra work of running through the sand. Reverie had never been a […]

Read More A Broken Place (coming this week)