🎖️Veteran, Educator, Advocate, Thespian. 🏫 📚🎭 imdb.com/name/nm2662088/

Here's to Chapter 48...🎉🎉🎉 #Blessed #Grateful #BirthdayBoy

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4-8), here are my teaching stats. 👨🏾‍🏫 Special Education Teacher (Inclusion) ⏳ 10 Years 🏫 4 Schools 🗺 4 School Districts 🍎 3 Classrooms 💼 4 Principals 🗽 States taught: Texas, Georgia ✔ Certified: Special Education (EC-12), Social Studies (4-8) Teacher friends, share your stats!

Watching the Michael movie wasn’t just entertainment. It was time travel. It took me straight back to being 5 years old, rocking a full Michael Jackson suit my grandparents got me for my birthday like I had a world tour to get to by bedtime. Alongside that? Cassette tapes they bought me. Thriller, Kool & the Gang’s Emergency, and Midnight Star’s Victory. Yeah…real ones know. Man, you couldn’t tell me NOTHING. I was in the mirror performing “Beat It,” “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” hitting notes I had no business attempting. That movie didn’t just play songs. It unlocked memories. And for a moment, I wasn’t watching history. I was living mine.

Featuring the hit single "I Told You The Truth."

She's got a point...

Sometimes you have to realize how good you've got it. 😎

I want to invite you to join me in praying each day - for our world, our communities, and one another. Wherever you are, take a few moments to pray along, and I also hope fellow artists will join in and encourage prayer on your platforms as well, let’s seek the Lord together!

I am still healing. Not just from toxic relationships or broken hearts, but from the quiet battles that no one ever saw. I am healing from the mistakes I made when I didn’t know better… from the times I lost my way and disappointed myself. I am healing from family wounds, broken friendships, and the painful realization that some of the people I believed in the most were never truly standing beside me. I am healing from betrayal. From trusting people who taught me what it feels like to be let down. From the deep ache of giving loyalty, love, and patience to those who didn’t know how to value it. But the truth is, some of the hardest healing has come from facing myself. From admitting the times I chased the wrong things, poured my energy into the wrong places, and ignored the voice inside me that knew better. There were moments I felt like I failed my own soul. Moments where the weight of disappointment, regret, and unanswered questions felt unbearable. Yet somehow… I am still here. Still standing. Still learning how to gather the broken pieces of myself and hold them with compassion instead of shame. My soul is learning to applaud the parts of me that the world overlooked. The quiet strength. The resilience. The courage it takes to keep moving forward when no one sees the battle you’re fighting inside. My healing has not been loud. It has not been perfect. It has been silent. It has been painful. It has been slow. But it has also been real. Every day I am choosing growth over bitterness. Wisdom over regret. Strength over the agony that once tried to consume me. And though the road has been heavy, I am more focused than ever before. Every lesson, every scar, every tear has shaped me into someone stronger than I once believed I could be. I am no longer running from my past. I am rising from it. And with every step forward, I am becoming the best version of myself — not in spite of the pain, but because I survived it.

No debate. All of these. 💪🏾🎯

Locked in on School Behavioral Threat Assessment Training today. 🧠💻 Protecting campuses starts with preparation, teamwork, and staying alert. Appreciate the work y’all do. 🙌🏾⭐️ @TxSchoolSafety #SafetyFirst #ThreatAssessment #TexasSchools #Educator

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., a central figure in the modern civil rights movement and two-time candidate for president of the United States, died Tuesday morning at the age of 84, his family confirmed in a statement. Read more: abcnews.visitlink.me/D25jBR

Golden years... #FYP #BBQ #JurassicPit #SeniorSmoke #DontAskJustEat 🤓

Last night was truly special. Reconnecting with my ring sponsor, Dr. Henry “Sonny” Presnal (c/o '57), and sharing space with so many incredible fellow Aggies at the Endowed Scholarship Dinner was a full-circle blessing. Moments like this remind me that generosity changes lives, and legacy lives on through opportunity. Grateful. Humbled. Inspired. 👍🏾 🙏🏾 #AggieNetwork #EndowedScholarship #Gratitude #FullCircle #GigEm #ScholarshipDinner #Blessed

The final answer is smoke... #FYP #BBQ #JurassicPit #GameShow #DontAskJustEat 🤓

Yep, that's me! Coffee every morning and multitasking! 😁 #TeacherLife 🍎

I miss the old print editions of Jet Magazine and wanted to be on the cover of one when I was a kid. Finally got my wish (sort of...LOL)!

Progress doesn’t need permission. It just needs your next step. Even when it’s messy. Even when it’s slow. Momentum beats perfect every single time. Take the step. Then take another. You’re already rising. #RiseUp #KeepGoing #MomentumMatters #ProgressOverPerfect #BuildForward #StayDriven #OneStepMore

Built my own comfort. #FYP #BBQ #JurassicPit #ColdSmokeHotFire #DontAskJustEat 🤓

"Woman, this man showed me kindness! Employed me, grabbed me out the field..."

"I always make sure you get home safe..."