How can it be that summer is over? As quick as it came crashing in, it has yanked itself away with school starting and cool mornings meant for jackets and backpacks. I feel cheated. This summer season was all but a blur of goings on that seemed to roll together and never stand still. […]
Middle School: The Devil’s Playground
A beautiful older teen girl recently referred to Middle School as “the devil’s playground”. And although her statement was meant for insight and truth, those very words instantly grew long claws with jagged edges and sharp spears that scraped the very flesh of my heart, leaving it raw and bloody. It got me. The […]
What Would A Good Mother Do?
We went on our annual excursion to the Ohio State Fair yesterday and I kept thinking of the story I shared in a post three years ago, when I first started blogging. I pulled it back up from the dusty archives and tweaked it with my slightly improved writing skills, so it would be a […]
