Most of the time, I’m an easy target. Attacking me can become a virtual free for all. Thankfully, that’s rare. That’s probably because most people can see that I’m pretty well meaning. I’m generally not trying to do any harm. But that doesn’t mean my mistakes don’t hurt others. I realize that they do, and…

Summary of the Curriculum Introduction I’ve got ADHD and I needed to be able to print my lesson, study it in the car on the way to church, and get to work teaching as soon as I arrived at class, almost 2 minutes late. If you’re anything like me, I think you’re going to love…

One day, when I was 11 years old, Mami and I were heading out to Manhattan. We were planning to visit Delancey Street, browse through May’s Department Store on 14th Street, and maybe visit a cuchifrito for some delicious fried treats. It was our usual Saturday routine, and she purposely skimped on some of the…

My absent father was a key central figure in my life, in a much bigger way than he might have been if he had been there all the time. Because he wasn’t there, I obsessed about that hole in my life. Through a process of continual questioning, I learned that he loved us kids and…

Mom was a stereotype, of sorts. She was one of those white girls who saw herself in another ethnicity. Although she was paler than an albino rat, she was insistent on speaking Spanish at home for at least two hours a day. She said it would keep them from losing the culture. What culture—we’re white…

Stephanie here: Jesus claimed to be a door. No, wait, he claimed to be THE door. He’s not afraid to tell us that he isn’t going to accept any other entry point to heaven. And there’s a really good reason for this. It’s because he knows that it’s true. Isn’t that so simple and easy…