About Me. And the SaberTooth Curriculum a book written in 1939.

Thinking about my future stirs up thoughts about the joys I have experienced as an educator. Tons of the youths I taught and guided in life and English and Journalism at David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles are now pals on social media. Recently, I did my best to follow engageny.org prescribed lessons at a local Albuquerque charter school adding my creativity and lesson plans twisted with Common Core standards. Behavioral objectives and standards are actually fun to follow, believe it or not, but truly feeling you have educated kids enough is challenging.

In 1980's, I was a huge used book fan and the college next to my University held sales a lot so that I collected some treasures that changed my life. One is a copy of a book about education that was republished (not dusty) from its original in 1939; it is The Saber-tooth Curriculum by J. Abner  Peddiwell (pseudonym for Harold R. W. Benjamin). Disguised as a drunken dialogue between a professor and an education student, it travels back in time to trace the confusing trends in educational philosophy.

I'm not teaching now. A combo of economics, post-recession still-hard-to-get-a-job timings, and my empathy for youth which reads as "Being Too Nice" have placed me in the spot where my writing skills since 4th - 5th grade push me on to finally publish my works! Like Hemingway, Steinbeck, and London, I feel that my many jobs and careers position me to view and know people and subjects from a different point of view. Born in the 60's, raised on Sinatra and music of the older days by my uncle and my single parent mom, people who worked hard and earned minimum wages of about $3 an hour.