With the close of last school year, I completed my 30th campaign in education. Each of those years has been filled with joy and sorrow, challenges and successes, ups and downs and a ton of stories worth sharing. My (True) Life in Education Thus Far will detail 30 or so of those stories. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed living (most) of them!
FINDING A SOULMATE AT THE OFFICE
DECEMBER 28, 2022
I may have suggested elsewhere in this volume of Teach and Serve that I cannot single out my favorite memory of the last 30 years doing this work of high school education.
That is actually not true.
I do have a favorite memory.
Over the summer between the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school years, a secret that I had been keeping for over a year reached its culmination. I got remarried. My wife is a person whose sole flaw is that she was silly enough to choose me to spend the rest of her life with.
She and I were very circumspect in our relationship, our courtship, our engagement. Very, very few people knew about it and we wanted to keep it very quiet.
We worked at the same Catholic high school, after all.
In the summer of 2007, we married.
In the fall of 2006, many were shocked as they did not even know we were dating. Best decision of my life.
So, in truth, I do have a favorite memory and, in this time of year where we consider gifts, I know that my wonderful wife (who I am working with again) is the best “gift” my work in education ever bestowed on me.
Without question.
