ABOUT
TISH KAY BAZIL
There were times when I stood in the middle of my noisy special needs classroom near the end of my emotional and psychological rope. It was at those moments when I doubted what it was that I was supposed to be doing with my life. My heart has always bled for the helpless because I too was once in their place. Still amid the daily chaos of my life in and outside of the classroom, I couldn't help but seriously consider the self-analyzing question: "Is this all there is?"
My tumultuous journey to becoming an author has been an exercise in delayed ambition. I am a mother of 4 beautiful and highly intelligent children. I have multiple teaching credentials as well as a master's degree in special education. I come from two successive generations of college educated women.
Writing for me has been about courage. Pouring out my thoughts has been both cathartic and illuminating. It has allowed me to see myself though a mirror that, several years earlier, I would've never had the courage to stand in front of. After sharing some of those very private words and circumstances with others I have come to find that what I was going thru stands in unison with what so many others have experienced.
It is now in my words that I hope to provide the salve that helps the helpless. Standing in the middle of that chaotic classroom, unbeknownst to me at the time, actually brought much needed order to my life. If we give it a chance, that thing that almost breaks us is actually the antidote. Now I can say that I know how to get the conversation started.
Are you ready?