Day 1 of Crewing Robbie’s Colorado Trail run: 41 miles After about 3 hours of sleep and a late night of packing the van and staging things to get packed (some of which were forgotten), we were up and at it around 4:30 am. We met the film crew and the rest of my family in the parking lot at Wateron Canyon. We took a few pictures and a group of us ran with Robbie for a few miles as he started his 485 mile mountain run from Denver to Durango. It is incredible how vivid my memori

Today was the last day of my Rodriguez Elementary chapter in Austin ISD. My position was cut due to massive district-wide budget cuts. Transitions can be quite sticky. This one hasn’t been an easy exit and the last month I have fallen to pretty paralyzing tunnel vision. I don’t have an answer to “so what’s next?” “Have you landed a new job?” “What are you going to do now?” Just no answer, a smile and a shrug of my shoulder. “I don’t know.” The end of this school year was like