There was another school shooting today. This time it was at a Church school in Tennessee. Like others before him, Gov. Bill Lee asked for thoughts and prayers. Nicole Parker of Fox News told us the side door of the school was open and that we need to remember those side doors. Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor … Continue reading The Orange Bucket by the Chalkboard
Dear Readers and Friends, I remember what it was like to live every day in uncertainty and fear. I grew up in a home with an alcoholic father and a mother crippled with depression. As a result, I never knew if my basic needs would be met or what I would have to face. … Continue reading None of us are immune to tragedy…a lesson remembered
I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time since the Presidential election thinking and feeling. I find myself fluctuating between anger, sadness, and a need to see a way ahead that requires finding some kind of middle ground with those whom I disagree. I’m trying very hard to listen to my neighbors near and far to … Continue reading Last Friday Night in Rural America…
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.” C.S.Lewis About 17 years ago, I was on the other side of a thyroid cancer diagnosis when I began to feel bad and then progressively feel worse. … Continue reading Be Still and Know…
by Beth Wesson I watched my eldest granddaughter play a high school basketball district tournament game. They lost. After the game, parents and grandparents dutifully waited outside the locker room to show our support. After what seemed like forever, the girls began to tearfully trickle out and flow into the arms of their loved … Continue reading Woman to Woman to Women
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that time spent at their house would result in my kneeling next to a couch making a huge and life-altering decision. I really should have seen it coming. The more time I spent there the more obvious it should have been. My eventual capitulation was as obvious as … Continue reading The Harmons…witnesses for Christ
There is a phenomenon called the teacher job satisfaction curve. Teaching is a profession for idealists. Teachers want to believe that we touch the future by teaching children. We are life-long learners who constantly hone our craft in an effort to engage our students in learning in the hopes of creating a spark that will … Continue reading Teaching, Curves and Icebergs… reflecting on the year
I started to write an article about Star Wars the Force Awakens and the positive portrayal of women I witnessed in the film. I started to write about a woman, Rey, who was allowed to just be herself. She didn’t have to act like a man or be the object of one. She was … Continue reading Someday in a Galaxy far far away women will be allowed to just …be
I’m still trying to make sense of the mass shootings in this country. America has always had a gun culture, but we have seen a sharp increase in mass shootings from the year 2007. My intuition says that this issue has its roots in changes to our belief system. This past week, my little part of … Continue reading Letting kids struggle…it’s a good thing
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Let me set the scene. My husband,as you may know, was once a college football coach. Over the years, we moved around in a few states chasing his coaching dreams. One of those states was Pennsylvania. We were at this particular school for seven years and because of the… Continue reading THE ONE WHERE I TELL ABOUT MAKING MY HUSBAND SPARKLE
My Writing Place is by a Lake 