Author: Teacher Toni

Last night, I attended a symposium, sponsored in part by The Nation magazine, focused on the current economic crisis.  The moderator, John Nichols, stated that the decision to come to Detroit was easy.  FDR came here...

I am sure that most of the news outlets have been following Hurricane Gustav and pregnant teenagers, but I took part in an amazing event today and I think that more people should know about it. Barack Obama came to speak at the...

As we all know, Michigan is one of the states that moved its primary date up, hoping to have a bigger say in who the nominees are.  Both national parties have  punished the state parties – taking away convention...

 A Year of ChangesCan you believe how much this little peanut has changed? This picture was take in April 2005, four months before we arrived in China. Andrew was only 9 months old

Gone are the days of the school marm, who couldn’t get married and remain a teacher.  No, teachers of today are faced with issues that would curl the school marm’s toes.  We are, however, backed by two...