Punchy Protagonist

As I sit behind the computer in my classroom, awaiting that last bell of Friday afternoon as anxiously as my students are, it is a slight time of reflection. I have gotten several bits of news this week of famous people that died, and I am in mourning, selfishly, for my childhood as I realize that I hold a connection to each of these figures. I have never met them nor shaken their hands, and yet they have all impacted my life in some way. Their essences and auras hold memories for me, which I now contemplate on as the clock ticks ever closer to the time when I get to shed my teacher persona and be a regular human for a couple of days. Roy Clark Roy Clark was a gem of a talented man, which I did not realize until I was older. When I was younger, I spent many hours rolling my eyes when my father would speak of Hee Haw, of which Roy was a robust host. At the time, I saw shows like Hee Haw as outdated and musicians like Roy Clark to be outdated. As I grew up, out of my stubborn teenage ...

I haven't written in a while. No stories, no blog posts, not even any creative ideas for ten-minute plays that will never come to be. Most people would think that writer's block stems from not knowing what to write...which is accurate, or not having anything to write about....which, in my case, is not accurate. The case is not that I have nothing to write about, it is that I have too much to write about. I am trying to learn that even the parts of life that I become impatient with end up being part of the beautiful journey that is my existence.  You see, as I have probably written before, patience is not something God blessed me with an abundance of. And, now more than ever probably, I have been reminded of the exact thing. That my timing for things is not always necessarily the best timing, and that just because I am ready for something does not mean everyone involved is or that it is the right time for it to happen. However, sometimes being ready for something that you ar...