It's December 9th, 2008. My birthday.... love this day, halfway between Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays, it fills in the void of December and always makes the season pretty special.

So, I woke up today and decided to blog my way through the next year.

I need someplace to put my thoughts down as I plow through my PhD Program in Education at Walden.

I'm also a vice principal at a middle school. My days are filled with interactions with kids who are constantly faced with making social and ethical choices, good and bad, influenced by their peers, their fears, or a need to be accepted by someone... maybe themselves.