Setting: Johnny sleeping in bed. His mother enters the bedroom.
Mother: Johnny dear, Time to get up and get ready for school.
Johnny: (he turns over; no answer)
Mother: You need to get up now. You’re going to be late!
Johnny: (he covers his ears; no answer)
Mother: I fixed your very favorite breakfast: pancakes with happy faces in chocolate chips.
Johnny: I’m not hungry and I’m not getting up!
Mother: We go through this every day. Why are you so stubborn?… just like your father.
Johnny: Leave me alone!
Mother: Tell me, what is your problem?
Johnny: Why can’t you get it? I just don’t want to!
Mother: Please tell Mommy why you don’t want to go to school.
Johnny: I hate school!
Mother: Lots of kids don’t like school, but they still go. Give me a better reason.
Johnny: Everybody at school hates me! Tell me why I have to go.
Mother: First of all, you’re 40 years old. Second, you’re the principal!!!
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Living my personal mission statement, “Each One, Teach One,” my greatest blessing is being the mother of two, grandmother of three and a lifelong educator. A graduate of UF and UNF, I am the former principal of St. Paul’s Catholic School in Jacksonville Beach, Florida and executive director of Tree Hill Nature Center in Jacksonville.
Since retirement my avocation is now my vocation – freelance writing. The technical writing of past professional life evolved into more creative genres of poetry, short fiction and memoir. My goal is to invoke the entire spectrum of human emotions in my reader: longing to laughter, pain to promise, despair to discernment.
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I love poetry and would love to read some thing from your many adventures cruising on the open seas,