erin ahnfeldt

Listening to Life

A Candle in the Cold

A Candle in the Cold

February was cold, and not just because of the freezing temperatures.  A student at our school died last month in a car accident, so her friends never got to say goodbye.   School counselors visited classrooms to help, and there were tears, but nothing could keep the...
Goodbye For Now

Goodbye For Now

There’s a cardboard sign on my office wall that says “Home”.  The word is scribbled in pen, and it’s well used, bent in different places.  One of my students made it while hitchhiking back to Colorado.  He showed it to me after his adventures, and I asked if I could...