[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.