Hello everyone. I am just getting started with a new website in which I will be posting blogs, excerpts from some of the essays in my current book “Dirt Roads Leave Ruts in Your Soul” and a few selections from my next book that I am currently working on about my many years in education including memories  from when I was a student, teacher and coach, and lots of stories about the 30 plus years I have been an administrator.  I hope to have the book completed by the end of the summer of 2017 and have it published by the early fall.

I am very excited about this upcoming book as it will contain many essays including a lot of very funny and entertaining stories about things that happened at school, several essays about great teachers I had as a student and/or worked with as a principal, and memories of my years of teaching and coaching and some of the students who made an impact on me.

The last part of the book will be many remembrances of my 22 years as a principal and a few from my 12 years as a district level administrator in which I will share many stories that made these years some of the best of my life. In this section, I will share some of the memories that made these days great and will also share some of the most challenging days a person can encounter.

These memories will be shared through the eyes of a principal in which I will try to show the readers that the job of being a school leader requires a person to be willing to be on board for the whole ride – the good days and the bad days, the celebrations of victories won and the heartbreak of battles lost, memories of triumph and tragedy.

If I learned only one thing in my years as a school principal it was this – You better be ready each and every day for the routine day to turn into something extraordinary in a matter of a moment. And, when these things happen, you can’t pass the buck to someone else – you better be ready for the whole show because sometimes there is no intermission.