Category Archives: Teacher

… what I have come to understand – is that Xavier would become a place of personal healing for me, even as it called on my professional self. When it comes to luck you make your ownTonight I got dirt … Continue reading →

… I was immediately struck by a significant question: can I do this job? Had a coat of fine leather and snakeskin bootsBut that coat always had a thread hangin’ loose – Lucky Town, Bruce Springsteen Following my late summer … Continue reading →

…my time at Mullen was filled with relationships that changed me and made me a better person and a better administrator. And I had some victory that was just failure in deceitNow the joke’s comin’ up through the soles of … Continue reading →

…during those years, I served alongside colleagues who were wholly committed to the mission of Jesuit education…  And I don’t know just where I’m going tonightOut where the sky’s been cleared by a good hard rainThere’s somebody callin’ my secret … Continue reading →

It is nearly impossible to overstate how much (Regis Jesuit High School) meant to me, and, over a decade following my departure, it still does.  And I had some victory that was just failure in deceit/ Now the joke’s comin’ … Continue reading →