With great respect, are you a “capitulator”? Our children are always watching. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

When a grade 5.10+ feels “soft”, you know you are ready to “break through”! Superior body positioning is most critical to keep your body close. Thanks to the beautiful Carole for her eternal encouragement. 🧗🏽❤️🧘🏾

Invigorating morning, as our fall garden adjusts to the much drier season. That means cutting back perennials and vines to stimulate new growth, and, er, keep the neighborhood association from leaving warnings in our mailbox. Been there. Have a beautiful rest of your weekend all. 🌿🧘🏾

We are about to see “One Battle After Another”…Will let you know! 🧘🏾 www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

Hard to convey how grounded and sated I have been feeling. In spite of the darkness, we must commit to experience and share joy and love with others. Hope this feeling comes thru on this technical pink V4. 🧗🏽🪬🧘🏾

President Trump: “Indivisible” is not only NOT a “domestic terrorist” organization but the same model - PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY - used by colonists working to create our country. We fight your lies, cruelty, fear and bigotry, and will never stop. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

A prideful Friday in my Florida classroom. Fuck your bigotry, with respect. 🌈❤️🌈❤️

Thank you Adam Serwer for your courage and integrity. Lower than cowards. Fucking breathtaking. We must stand against this takeover. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸 apple.news/AIojgt5QeQha...

Do not allow “Court Street” in Clearwater, Florida to be renamed after Charlie Kirk. Do not sanction or condone bigotry. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

Trump’s plan for “patriotic education” reveals how little he knows about our history, or teaching itself. We teachers do NOT tell our students what to think. Trump’s vision IS indoctrination. Hypocrisy. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

Oh my! Back and forth between Medieval Japan and the Myth and Reality of the “Wild West” in my classroom. Had something to give on the wall and was elated to cleanly ‘scend this black V4, featuring my nemesis “sloper” holds. Nice. 🧗🏽🌈🧘🏾

Last night’s threatening thunderheads that teased…but no rain. Surreal and ominous. Whoa!

Consider that today, before the United Nations General Assembly and representatives from nearly every country in our world, Donald Trump modeled blatant bigotry, excoriated the United Nations’ very existence and called climate change a “con job”, further embarrassing all Americans. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

Still in my “school clothes”, just spent two and half hours with a German documentary film crew, making a film about democracy around the world under threat. Thank you for a profoundly urgent project. Honored to have been asked to share from the front lines of Florida. 🙏🏽✊🏾🇺🇸

Pretty cool that a Herman documentary film crew, who was in Arizona yesterday for the Kirk memorial, are here to interview me! They met me right at my school. Their project is about the threat to democracies around the world. 🙏🏽✊🏾🇺🇸

Happy to have been able to pull off this risky shirt and tie combo. Both the shirt and tie purchased at different thrift stores this summer, one in Chicago and the other Boston. Working it as the only male on campus with a tie…gotta represent! 🪬🧘🏾

Trump’s takeover has begun. Our integrity is everything now. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

1. Trump’s takeover has begun. Our integrity is everything now. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

Oh my, the toe hook to start, then the feeling of the traverse on this orange V4…simply luscious. The huge foot switch into alternating, delicate pinches. Oh, and I “flashed” (success on the first attempt) it! Nice. Thanks to Aizlyn for filming and encouraging. 🧗🏽🌈🧘🏾

The first payoff! Serrano peppers are our favorite for that right balance of flavor and heat. Had to wait for them to turn red. And later we make chili! 🌶️🌈❤️

Last week, Clipse and John Legend performed “The Birds Don’t Sing”, AT THE VATICAN. Clipse are the brothers Pusha T. and Malice, legends of hip hop, back together with the first song of their new album, “Let God Sort ‘Em Out”, about the loss of their parents just weeks apart. Tears of gratitude. 🙏🏽

MUST WATCH! You simply must see Stephen Colbert, last night reprising his old role as “Stephen from the Colbert Report”! He is speaking to us and through us. And it hits hard. Get your mirror ready to check yourself. As we must. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

Sated. How I am feeling after week six of year 29 in my Florida history classroom. Much work to be done but remain focused on my daily goal to be present so I can always meet my students’ human needs first. Great teaching is happening. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

“ANTIFA is not a “domestic terrorist” organization, because it does not even exist. Make it clear to all that “anti-fa”, simply means to be “anti-fascist”. Always stand up to President Trump labeling or demonizing fellow citizens. It is UN-American. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

We are at the North Pinellas County Democratic Club’s monthly meeting with Florida’s next governor, David Jolly, a man of dignity, integrity and decency. He is boldly speaking about the role that government must play for ALL Americans. We are here for this fight. Thank you for sharing! ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

Say hello to strangers. Say hi to people you don’t know. People like Shawn, who make my life richer wherever I go. This is my one and only lifetime and I am better for knowing him. 🤠🌈🧘🏾

ARE WE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS? The Trump administration has identified “Indivisible” while also speaking of labeling “left-wing” groups “domestic terrorists”. Chilling. I have been part of “Indivisible North Pinellas” for eight years, meeting monthly. We remain defiant and vigilant. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

Weightlifting class about to begin…with Van Gogh! ❤️🧘🏾

Racial profiling is now legal for ICE agents to use when targeting undocumented human beings. Pure bigotry from the majority of our Supreme Court. For shame. Silence is complicity. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

How “luscious” FEELS. The best way to thank a route setter is to climb their design cleanly, with quiet feet and flow. This red 5.10+ has a beautiful mid-section and you will know it when you see it. Thank you Carole for being my partner in all things. 🧗🏽❤️🧘🏾

Who knew that Philippe Park in Safety Harbor, fifteen minutes from our house, had a climbing area? One of the few outdoor climbing in the entire state…more serendipity even if fake rocks! Perfect training for our outdoor climbing trip in north Alabama, in November. Kid…candy store! 🧗🏽🤠🍭

And then we find ourselves babysitting our almost four-year old granddaughter, Gwen. She has never been to the wonderland that is Philippe Park in Safety Harbor, Florida, ten minutes from our house. Former capital of the indigenous Tocobaga peoples, including massive shell mound. Serendipity. 👧🏽❤️🧘🏾

CHILLING! Just received this message - sent by the Florida Education Commissioner to ALL district superintendents - from our local teacher union. I have already posted two videos about Charlie Kirk and will continue to exercise my Constitutional right to free expression. I know my rights. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

From a three-hour, immensely rewarding deescalation training to the 22nd annual Pinellas Pepper Festival. The Robinsons like it hot! In these dark times, a commitment to experience and share joy and love every day. 🌶️🧘🏾

@indivisible.org MASTERFUL DEESCALATION TRAINING. Our Indivisble North Pinellas (FL) group will be better and stronger after today’s deeply engaging three-hour safety deescalation training. Our instructor, Sam Obeid was simply incredible, coming from a teacher in year 29! In solidarity. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

WE WILL BE BETTER AND STRONGER! See, all of our safety escorts have only ever attended a one-hour virtual deescalation “training”. After today’s magnificent, three-hour training, we have all been “safely aware of so many things we did not know”. And we are so grateful, especially now!

DEESCALATION TRAINING. Our Indivisible North Pinellas (FL) group already has a cadre of safety escorts to man all rallies and events. We’re taking our understanding deeper in a magnificent, deeply engaging training with the sensational Sam Obeid, enhancing our toolbox of deescalation strategies. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

My state Education Commissioner is threatening public school teachers who make social media posts to “watch what we post” about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. She of course has no power over our lawful behavior as private citizens. We know our rights. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

A masterfully HONEST assessment of Charlie Kirk, the man. For those who hope that his death marks some kind of turning point in our national culture, we must agree that it can not happen without acknowledging his record of bigotry and antagonism. Integrity matters. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

Charlie Kirk is not a hero, saint or martyr but a bigot, and bigotry is UN-American. A simple google search of “Charlie Kirk bigotry” reveals his long record of actively working to normalize it. Making clear who he really was is NOT disrespectful. It is being honest. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

Happy Friday #5 my friends. Woke up, for the first time since I was a sensor in high school, weighing 165 pounds. My fitness journey continues with the slow return of my abs after a twenty-five year break. Have a beautiful rest of your day. 🤠🌈🧘🏾

Despite almost coming off on the tiny green hold, I am thrilled with how cleanly I ‘scent the rest of this slow, slinky and deliberate green V4. Thanking the beautiful, always encouraging Carole Robinson. ❤️🧗🏽

Today I join all history and social studies teachers in Florida, in a lesson about September 11, 2001. This lesson always brings tears on my part, something my students need to see. Deep breaths as we reflect on what that day means to us and, hopefully, the lessons we learned. 🙏🏽👨🏽‍🏫🇺🇸

Charlie Kirk would welcome a spirited “debate” about his own, irrefutable bigotry. Here is a record of his bigotry. I will every day denounce violence. But let us be clear what Charlie Kirk himself has said and done. Google: Charlie Kirk bigotry

I know that Charlie Kirk has died, hoping each of us will commit to denouncing violence. Period. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

It is with tremendous respect and in solidarity that I ask two questions that are even hard to speak. Is this where we are?✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

We attend every monthly Pinellas County (FL) School Board meeting and our efforts to defend public education - the foundation of our democracy - are working. No member of Moms for Liberty has been here for two years because we are doing our part to educate our voting public. Defend your schools.

Remain vigilant my friends. Our fellow citizens MUST hear and see us standing up to Trump’s assault on undocumented human beings. His entire immigration policy is built on a foundation of blatant lies about drugs and crime. The children are watching. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦 apple.news/AFRXqC37OQIi...

“Just commit” is one of the most common climbing refrains, so true for the last move of this sketchy green V4. Even after landing it, it does not count until both hands are on the finishing hold. Woo hoo! Thank you to my beautiful wife Carole for her eternal encouragement. 🧗🏽❤️🧘🏾

Such a critically important, and inspiring and comforting, article from an author whose epic journey to Georgia among great unrest validated the way of being she needed to bring back to our country. Now. In solidarity. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦 apple.news/A5_sOrUPdRGO...