My Unlikely Journey to the Classroom
The Accident That Changed Everything About three months after I graduated from high school in 1978, I suffered a very serious accident in the home where I grew up. My brother had dashed into the garage, pushing the kitchen door open as far as it would go. That door, with its heavy spring closer, was primed to slam—unless I stopped it first. Instinctively, I reached out. Instead of my palm finding the wooden frame, it hit the pane of glass in the center of the door. I’d done that hundreds of times before, but this time my hand shattered the … Read more