A little more about me.

We started our family a little later than some. Thank God my wife and I look younger than we actually are! I like to think that our age gives us the wisdom to overcome the stumbling blocks of youthful, emotional, and sometime irrational decisions younger parents make. Yet, maybe my wisdom is little more than a mixture of some life experience, a dash of higher education, a splash of pride, and all of it whipped up with a whole lot of wishful thinking and reflection. Whatever it may be, I am doing the best I can to raise our daughter in a world fraught with scary characters, iniquitous schemes, and seemingly irrepressible vanity.

Over the last dozen or more years I’ve spent my calling working as a police officer and a public high school teacher. Needless to say my point of view sometimes points in odd directions– contrary to the commercial opinions expressed by the masses. I would like to think that those jobs, and the countless other menial jobs I’ve held over the last twenty-plus years, has sharpened my outlook on life, politics, society, and our educational system. Maybe it has.

My life changed at the dawning of 2007 with the birth of our daughter; it changed once again when I quit work to be a stay-at-home father. I’ve thought about blogging for sometime. I have decided to do it for two reasons: First, practice makes perfect. I plan to return to the classroom at some point in time. Writing, like any skill, quickly becomes rusty without constant attention. Second, I love to write; and perhaps what I have to say can be of use to someone else– only time can tell.