The word "teacher" conjures up so many conflicting images, because it is a word so rich in meaning, that revealing you're a teacher, without the chance to expound a bit on what that signifies, is like being thirty-nine years and eleven months old but telling people you're thirty-something. Too much has to be left out, which is why I wrote this book to share what it meant to me working in a public school all those years. Education in America is a huge topic, but I don't believe that enough is said in personal ways right from the trenches. Books like UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE by Bel Kaufman, and...

See or perhaps remember what it was like to be a teenager in the 1960's, facing the quest to fit in while finding your own identity at school and at home...making good and bad choices, dealing with siblings, finding your way in a world that was only outwardly simpler than today's world, encountering unforgettable characters along the way and finding that life is overall pretty wonderful. See Indiana of the 1960's, what college life was like, friendships, laughable conflicts we thought were catastrophic, the world through a teen's eyes, and maybe discover that there are certain universals that...