I worked as director of Communications for St. Louis Public Schools for eight months. It was the position I worked for the least amount of time in my entire career, the most chaotic job I ever held, and the one that likely remains the most vivid in my memory.
Perhaps it was the political battles inside the district, the arrests at school board meetings, the ongoing protests, my boss getting doused with a pitcher of water by a member of the school board, the typical chaotic day of an urban school district. It might have been the constat media exposure, starting my first day (eight separate interviews on a teacher sick-out) and continuing until my last day. I did more media meetings and discussions in those eight months than the rest of my career combined.
A lot of scenes have stuck with me; a few even got worked into my five Dancing Priest novels.
Photograph of Headquarters by St. Louis Public Schools.
Some Wednesday Readings
Van Eyck: The Portraits – National Gallery, London.
Does Christian Fiction Exist? – Tessa Carman at Mere Orthodoxy.
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