got me workin' day and night

Recently, two of my best friends, who also happen to be my colleagues, were honored as Hometown Heros.  Now, between you, me, and the rest of the interweb, I am very proud of them.  Being so close to two people that are seen in such an honorable light, in turn, makes me feel honored.  

The dream of everyone who honorably enters any profession hopefully is to make a positive, and hopefully memorable impact in that field.  Whether is saving lives, the planet, or a ruined hollandaise, we all want to leave that profession knowing that we haven't spent the past 30 or more years working in vain.  To be  acknowledged by the students you've motivated, inspired, and/or hopefully educated is one form of that blessing.  Although these two educators are confident in front of a classroom full of students, they are very humble women in constant search of better and more effective ways of reaching their students and staff.  

 As I relentlessly, and often painfully, watch students move through and beyond high school, I pray that they all find that profession that makes them stay up late at night, work on weekends, and talk about it in their spare time. If in 5 years, I have former student stop by and tell me about their first out of college job with excitement, invigoration, and exhaustion, that will be my bonus.