So, due to numerous complaints, I've finally updated this picture.

Where I "come from."

As my undergraduate students here at SFA would say, I'm "all about" being a teacher. I not only enjoy teaching, I'm passionate about it. I love to do it, and I think it's the most important job that anyone can have (probably aside from parenting). I believe that my job as a teacher is to facilitate the learning process. I believe in justice and fairness, and I am never going to be "out to get you," but because I think it's so important, I tend to have high expectations for myself and for my students.

My professional background includes having served as an itinerant teacher for students with visual impairments, an Education Service Center Educational Specialist, and part of the Texas School for the Blind's Outreach program. My last position before coming to SFA three years ago was as TSBVI's Statewide Staff Development Coordinator.

Goals and Dreams

My goal is to provide the most practical, pragmatic training possible to my students, and to do that in the most realistic and painless way possible.

My professional dream has pretty much been fulfilled. It was to teach at a small teaching university where I could concentrate on working with preservice teachers.

Someday, I'd like to write a romance novel -- but then so would almost everyone I know!

What I like.

Johnny Cash and June Carter (singing anything)

Horses (Mine's named Obcessive Reflection or "Cooper" to his friends)

Dogs (mine's a seven year old Boston Terrier named "Gus")

The Carter Family

Theater

Travel for fun

Classical music (especially chamber music)

Appalachian, folk, and/or bluegrass music

What I don't like.

Liver (in fact, most meat)

Travel for work

Rap music

Violent or scary movies

Mean people

What I do for fun.

garden

ride horses

hang out with friends

surf the net

watch women's basketball (Lady Jack and WNBA)

I'm also currently working on writing a romance novel set in the Old West!

What interests me.

Why people do what they do.

Kids with visual impairments.

Animals and why they do what they do.

Documentaries.

Good movies.

Good books.

Good music.

What I hope my students would say about me.

That I prepared them as well as I possibly could to work with children who have visual impairments.

That I was demanding but fair.

That I was supportive.