I am an educator, writer, and lifelong student of the human experience. My interests have always crossed boundaries, from ethics and civic life to human development, faith, education, and the ordinary experiences that shape who we become. For most of my adult life, the Front Porch has represented a place in my heart where I can step away from the noise, think, contemplate, relate to others, and interact with God.
The Road to the Front Porch
The idea of the Front Porch began in the late 1990s, just after I began teaching. I started writing little snippets and stories that I would occasionally share on social media. My students enjoyed the bits of wisdom contained in those reflections and encouraged me to keep writing.
Over time, I collected pages of these pieces in OneNote and preserved them in a notebook titled The Front Porch. In 2015, I revisited that collection and decided that one day I would write a book called From the Front Porch.
Every time I tried, though, I gave up. I didn’t think I had a voice.
But somewhere along the way, particularly over the past two years, I found it. And now I’m trying again, not as a person struggling to find an identity, but as someone who has integrated his past into his present and is looking forward.
