Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Change is a process not an event.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.