Author Archives: David Lee Moser

Dave – It’s still a bit hard to believe you’re no longer with us.  The news was quite a shock to say the least.  I was really sorry I didn’t get to attend your memorial service,,,the last day of school is one you just can’t miss – I figured you would understand. I decided thisContinue reading “Letter to Good Friend Dave…”

It was exactly six years ago today that I taught my last classes as a middle school teacher in the public schools….or at least I thought.  Sure, I had some plans for retirement, but it would seem that the God of my understanding wasn’t so sure I was ready to pack it all in quiteContinue reading “Some things remain the same…”

I recently downloaded a Facebook app that allows you to see who has “unfriended” you and perhaps even blocked you in the process.  While some of them come as no big surprises, there have been several that come as a shock.  I understand that social media friendships are different from “real” friendships in many respects,Continue reading “Apologies to Friends no longer Friends”

I’m not exactly sure of the year, but sometime around 1980 I made a purchase that defied explanation.  I had seen her several times and admired her, not thinking that she was available.  And then that day came; a “For Sale” sign appeared on her windshield.  I passed by several more times, thinking that theContinue reading “My Pride and Joy”

I recently enjoyed a week-long trip to the North Carolina mountains to enjoy the scenery and get away for a while.  I normally stay at the same quaint motel and decided this time would be no exception.  The twelve rooms were tucked into a small corner of the town and the time I spent thereContinue reading “The Lost Key”

It was a little over five years ago, June 14, 2010, that I taught what I thought was my last class in a public school.  I had carefully considered my options and decided that it was time to look at other options, or so at least I thought. I took off the mandatory six monthsContinue reading “Detours and Closed Roads…”

Today is the second consecutive day of staying away from the world of Facebook.  I had decided that I was spending way too much of my waking day glued to the computer or FB phone app, so I decided to start weening myself from it.  Yesterday morning after I had posted my two inspirational readingsContinue reading “Letting go…ever so slowly”

Risk Being Alive  “I know nothing is going to last forever,” Charlie said. “But the key to life and being happy is acting as though it is.” Many of us have had our illusions about security and permanency shattered.  The longer we’re alive, the more it gets beat into us that nothing is forever.  WeContinue reading “Risk Being Alive”

Two Layers of Synchronicity I recently accepted a job to substitute teach for a seventh grade social studies teacher.  It just so happened that he was also the boys’ basketball coach.  While the day progressed, I noticed he had the team’s white jerseys all neatly-folded inside a large plastic container.  I decided to take aContinue reading “Two Layers of Synchronicity”

I was substitute teaching in a fifth grade classroom on November 22, 2013.  It was exactly fifty years ago on that day when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.  How are the two events even remotely related?  Read on… During the course of the school day, a student approached me with aContinue reading “50 Years Later…”