I’ve moved this blog to a privately hosted Wordpress blog, with a spanking new domain name and everything: http://www.apaceofchange.com.  This will be my last post on this Edublogs blog, and comments are closed.  I will leave this up for a little while to re-direct folks who don’t subscribe via RSS (already updated to reflect the new address) and who may come here through outdated links.

I’ll still blog about education, but as I’ve said before, I’m moving my focus away from the classroom perspective and more toward my new career role, school psychology and special education.  That said, I’ll try to touch upon a range of topics that you’ll hopefully find relevant.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you’ll come with me to my new blogging home.

Oh, I don’t know, a year or two now.  Just let me explain…

Look, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, and… well, I just don’t know if this is meant to be.  I know we’ve been together for years, and we’ve had our share of great times and hard times.  Things were really tough in the beginning, but once I better understood what this relationship was going to require of me, I adjusted and adapted, and then things were much, much better.  I was able to commit more of myself to what you needed and deserved.  I stayed up late, long hours for you, devoted entire weekends to making plans, and constantly assessed where we stood, just like you wanted me to do.  But you had to know that I couldn’t keep up that intensity forever, right?

It’s just that, I dunno… Have you ever arrived at a place where you wondered if this… us… we would be together forever or just for now?  I mean, the last eight years have been a lot of work and a lot of fun, but do you really see us together forever?

I have to be honest – I don’t.  You’re great, really, but I’m just at a place in my life where I need something… different.  I’m not the same guy I was eight years ago.

It’s not you.  It’s me.

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I officially resigned my teaching position today, and accepted a full-time, tenure track school psychologist position at another school, to begin in 2009.  Chapter Two begins now.

Your kind thoughts and words are all greatly appreciated.  I’m looking forward to sitting down and writing a proper post soon (as soon as I get some back grading done!).

Whether or not you believe in a higher power or supreme being, any positive energy or kind thoughts would be much appreciated. We lost a very special person this week, decades too early.

The past 48 hours have been among the most difficult in recent memory, possibly my life, and there’s a long road yet ahead.