I’m going to ae. My first. I am qualified because I write this blog. But maybe there’s something else that qualifies me. I write what matters to me. in America’s public schools, colleges and universities. And when you represent people, you try to give voice to them. 
But that’s not what I do in this blog.
In this blog, I am selfish. I don’t write what somebody tells me to write. I don’t write about something that someone voted on. I write about something that matters to me.
I feel justified because, after all, I’m one of those 3.2 million educators. I figure I was elected because somebody out there liked what I had to say and how I said it. So I’m going to a bloggers conference to meet other people who don’t let somebody tell them what to write or what to feel.