A New Year Prayer: I am the New Year. I am an unspoiled page in your book of time. I am your next chance at the art of living. I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned about life during the last twelve months. All that you sought …
I was telling a friend we- people in general, not he and I specifically- should come with warning labels. And, then, because I’m me, I wondered where they should go. And I thought they should be on our bottoms. That way, there would still be some mystery. I wouldn’t want …
I have spent a lot of my working years working with kids. And most of the time, I have worked with kids who did not have the life we want for kids. I have worked with foster kids, truant kids, criminal kids. I have worked with kids who had homes …
I went to the zoo for Christmas. It was a different year for me without my two older kids here and I didn’t want to stay at home and feel their absence even more than I all ready did when we got the tree and put it up. Or when …
Christmas is not my favorite holiday. I like it okay, but it’s not something I wait for all year. I’m not a Scrooge or Grinch, but it’s just not something I get all doe-eyed about. But there are some things I really do love: I love those Snow and Heat …
I saw this story a while ago about a renaming ceremony. Girls in India had been given names clearly indicating their (lack of) value in their family/community. In a country devastated by poverty and within a culture that burdens families with daughters financially, baby girls had been given names meaning …