You Gotta Move It!

Photo by Maria Newsom

School crossing guards are the unsung heroes of the morning commute. When my own local crossing guard retired, I wanted to acknowledge her twenty-two years of service on the same congested corner, and to thank her for safely shepherding countless children—including mine—across the same scary intersection, day after day, year after year. Read beloved Ms. Joanne’s story below in You Gotta Move It!, my first piece published in West Midwood News