I am thankful to work in a field that has starts and stops. There are 3 starts I get in a year: the start of the calendar year, the start of the school year, and the start of summer. It’s that last one I’m in right now. I work year-round so the summer is part…
There’s a word that I have heard about a lot lately in different conversations: family. There may be some people that recoil when they hear that word if their experience with a family was painful. I am blessed to have a good family and, for me, that word means “love”. I am an…
I teach, so each year I have the honor of being part of graduation ceremonies. I don’t think when I started to teach that I realized how unique it is to have the perspective that I do. First, I have spent most graduation ceremonies on the stage, watching each graduate walk by, and looking out…
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about spending time with the Greatest Generation. The group I actually spend the most time with, though, is the Millennial generation. I have heard negative adjectives or descriptors used to describe today’s young adults, but I want to share with you my experience with them. They are…
“I have a dog named Otis, who is a rescue.” I usually introduce him that way signifying that the “rescue” part is more important than any other label. For him, it is. I think the story goes that he and his brother were left in a garbage bag near a cemetery. When they were found,…
“Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?” If you are familiar with musical theater, you likely recognize those words. Those lyrics are from the song “Will I” in the Broadway musical “Rent”. Rent is a story about several young adults trying to survive in the shadow of…
As I mentioned, I was at a reunion recently. It was at Cape Canaveral, Florida and I went there with my mom, who is a vegetarian. I was a vegetarian for years during and after college, but then I moved to Texas. West Texas. Beef country. I resisted for several years but was that high-maintenance…