I teach & coach to help students become the best version of themselves through a consistent commitment to integrity, resilience and humility. #MyWhy

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”

2026 Summer Reading. 13 Books. 3,119 Pages.

Summer Book 13: “…[O]ne of the pillars of the All Blacks environment is that it is devoted to learning; the management are students of the game, constantly looking for the edge.”

Summer Book 12: “That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.”

Summer Book 11: “Coffee will never lose its romance. It will always bring people together and be part of conversations in every language, even as the conversations change. Coffee will forever connect.” @Starbucks

Summer Book 10: “…one has to have a calling to become a true teacher. And above all things, one needs a bounty of courage. The calling informs the teacher that her knowledge is needed in new unchartered areas, and the courage makes the teacher dare the journey.” @DrMayaAngelou

Summer Book 9: “History is ripe with examples of leaders who manipulate fear to distract, mislead, and undermine the will of the very people who entrusted them with power…I believe that the people most in danger of being duped are actually those who stay home.” @RickSteves

Summer Book 8: “The cow-puncher had lived like his kind, but his natural daily thoughts were clean, and came from the untamed but unstained mind of a man.”

Summer Book 7: “I love talking to kids about history because they ask more imaginative and honest questions than adults, and their innate morality has not yet been compromised by life.” @sarahkendzior

Summer Book 6: “The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. And then the occasion slipped by so that you had to grab at a decision. This made you think; because thought was a valuable thing, that got results…”

Summer Book 5: “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”

Summer Book 4: “…[R]esilience isn’t just about the ability to persevere…it is also an outlook we can cultivate to stay focused on the important things in life rather than what is most urgent, and to keep ourselves from being carried away by negative emotions.” @kirai

Summer Book #3: “I am not caught up in regret or self-reproach because of my mistakes in life. I take it all as a learning experience so I can do better in the future…my mistakes become a valuable passport to humility.”

Summer Book 2: “The spirit of evil thrives on disquiet, because inner turmoil distracts the soul from getting lost in loving and praising God.”

Summer Book #1: “…[I]f we live in fear and never try, if we never attempt something scary or daunting, we can’t know what limits we possess. If we don’t push ourselves, the only limits we face are the ones we place on ourselves, the ones we fabricate in our minds.”