I am an English/Journalism instructor at New Richmond High School in New Richmond, Wisconsin; I have also been a perennial speech/forensics coach, and an assistant track coach (jumpers - I high jumped in college). In addition, I have been a GPDE instructor for St. Mary's University of Winona, Minnesota, and I continue to freelance as a writer and photographer for a Twin Cities newspaper. Anyone wondering why I use past tense for most of the above "About Me" profile doesn't really know me well. Yet. I've been largely hospitalized over the past three plus years, and I have finally been healed (with some residual problems I will get the pleasure of dealing with for the rest of my life). Also, I am typically sarcastic, and I can lie without flinching, blinking, or moving (always in fun for the gullible, like my mother...) Welcome.