A Brother Moves On

I woke up at 1 in the morning to the sounds of geese, roosters and dogs crying. My brother Adrian called me at 1:20 a.m. to tell me that our brother Alan Anthony Delgado died this morning at 1 a.m. He died after a long battle with MS. He was 36 years old. He was an all-american kid with a big smile and a bigger heart. He had what we called that 'Luke" smile and attitude of the character Paul Newman played in "Cool Hand Luke". He was handsome like our dad. Girls swooned when he was in school. Yet, he was the consumate gentleman. He was a natural leader and good friend. He...
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"The Twinkle in His Eye"

The Twinkle in His Eye

On Friday, Martha Zepeda, our Kindergarten teacher and her trusted co-educator, Ruth Solis went on their bi-weekly student house visits. What was to be a "routine" visit turned into a "Lazarus" event for a man in the winter of his life. What was a shadow became carnate. The old man, who was in his seventies, entered the conversation between his grandson's teachers and parent by asking if his grandson was as quiet at school as he was at home. With that question, his own silence was broken, as the man began to eventually speak of his journey on this Earth. Martha and Ruth's genuine interest in his story, motivated him to talk of life, music,...
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Kindergarten Clausura

On Wednesday, Martha Zepeda and I stayed until around 6:30 pm. selecting the last digital images of the year for the Kindergarten slideshow. After selecting some 20 more images, we previewed the show. With the last image, the song No Basta by Franco de Vita finished! Perfect! It must be great Karma, I could only smile as Martha told me, "see what I mean about this classroom!" Another minor miracle in a long string of them. Thursday morning, I burned the presentation project folder onto a CD, five minutes before the Kindergarten closing ceremony. I loaded the CD into my trusty iBook and the damn presentation didn't work as it was supposed to. The presentation was missing 30 plus images...
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This is a experimental mutli-author blog built to publish teacher stories. You know the stories that you do not find in the national or local media.
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