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Yes, we are still on the Yellowbrick Road to The Emerald Steel City. The past few weeks have been a reminder to me that our journey back to Pittsburgh really is mirroring The Wizard of Oz. Just like Dorothy, I feel like I have been in a cyclone and dropped into a new and semi-strange land. I haven’t posted in so long because my free time has been more
It is 7:oo am on a Thursday morning in early September and I step out of my classroom for hall duty. For those who do not work in the hallowed halls of education it just means that my colleagues and I watch kids walk by on their way to 1st block. I am very self conscious about my attire – a black polo shirt and Khaki’s. It is a bit under-dressed more
I was never one of those people who planned to leave his or her hometown as soon as possible. On the contrary, I remember the day I was forced to accept the fact that I would have to leave Pittsburgh. It was one of the worst days of my life. It was in the late spring of 1994 and I was substituting at my Alma Mater, Langley High School, during the more
