Repost from my old, now deleted, blog from July 12, 2021. While a lot of my life has changed since this was originally posted, I felt it was important to not lose my original thoughts and original purpose. I have been putting this off for years. Okay, I'm not sure about years, but at least a year. Everything I've read about a first post just says to write one. Despite not having done much writing in the past few years, I have always said I'm a better writer than speaker, so why do I spend all my time talking? In teaching, there's so little room for opinions or my other interests. Teaching makes up a small portion of my interests, but the majority of my life. It's making my life feel smaller, instead of bigger like the variety of my interests. As a teacher, I'm trying to expose my students to life outside the classroom and expand their world. However, each day of teaching has made my world and myself feel smaller. Now, this isn't a super peppy first post, ...